Standard Shared Website Hosting
Shared hosting is the most common type of web hosting on the Internet. In a shared hosting environment, all of the websites that share the same server will also share one single IP address. Instead of having a unique IP address for every domain, they can all share one IP address. This simplifies the technical aspects of hosting your website and allows the hosting companies to charge less for the monthly hosting subscriptions.
What is an IP?
Every website domain name has an IP address assigned to it. An IP address is the real numerical address of a website or server. Domain names were adopted because people can remember names much easier than long IP numbers like 234.123.66.7. IP, or Internet Protocol, is the primary network protocol used on the Internet. IP supports unique addressing for computers on a network. Data on an IP network is organized into packets.
Websites that need eCommerce security must have a dedicated IP address opposed to a shared IP address. Yet, the vast majority of websites operate well on shared IP hosting. Industry professionals claim that, aside from security and search engine optimization, there are no measurable performance differences when comparing a website hosted on a shared IP opposed to a dedicated IP. Both shared IP hosting and dedicated IP hosting can be useful depending on what you want from your website.
What is a Dedicated IP?
Larger websites and ecommerce enabled websites have dedicated IP addresses. This means that the website is the only one on the internet using that unique IP number. For example, if you typed 209.131.36.158 into your web browser's address bar you will see Yahoo's website. This is Yahoo's dedicated IP address and no other website uses it. This is the unique address on the Internet that has been attached to the domain name yahoo.com.
The disadvantage to shared IP web hosting is that other websites share the same IP and server with yours. Some websites may be involved in unethical behavior such as spamming, scamming or posting illegall or unethical content. if a website sharing your IP gets banned or blacklisted, your IP can get banned or blacklisted right along with them. You may not even know that your website has been banned until your site disappears from the search engines or your emails start getting blocked by Internet Service Providers. In a shared hosting environment the actions of others sharing the server can effect your website and cause you problems.
If you have a business website that grows over time, you will eventually want to upgrade to a dedicated IP address for your website. If you have a merchant account and want to accept credit card payments on your website, you must have a dedicated IP. To accept credit cards on your website, an SSL certificate is required. To install an SSL certificate on your website, a dedicated IP address is required. You can get around this by using a PayPal or Google Checkout, which process payment for you on their servers. However, the bounce rate for PayPal and Google Checkout is statistcally higher than for shopping carts that process payment directly on the their website.
There are also search engine optimization issues to consider. Many website owners have found that websites with a dedicated IP address do much better in the search engine results than those hosted on shared IPs. Increased security is another reason to upgrade budget web hosting to a dedicated IP address.
Most of Razworks website hosting customers find shared IP hosting to be more than satisfactory. However, Razworks shared IP hosting is contracted from national web hosting specialists, whose managed servers are typically superior to local web hosting companies. The shared IP hosting servers are also monitored 24/7 to insure a maximum resource threshold is not exceeded, which translates to better performance for your website.
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