Alternatives to Shared Hosting

New blogs are prime candidates for a shared hosting package as such a package keeps your costs down whilst giving you all the services you require to get started quickly.  Problems will only arise if you find that your CPU usage exceeds the amount the server has allocated to you.

If this happens, your server company will have a clause in the agreement that you signed, stating that they have the right to suspend your account.  This would be a dramatic message to receive from your server provider. Normally they would offer you ways to be un-suspended by either requesting you pay an additional charge, or you upgrade your account to a higher monthly cost.

If this situation were to arise, you have the other options of purchasing a dedicated server, which will be expensive. As a “half-way house” measure, you can upgrade from the hosting package you are in, to a Virtual Web Server (VPS), which is similar to owning a dedicated server but on a virtual basis.