Nov 20, 2008
Not all hosting is created equal. The first hosting that you generally get is New Zealand shared hosting, then you find out about the cheap international hosting. You may migrate to a reseller account on shared hosting, then virtual private servers, dedicated servers, and load balanced dedicated servers. While hosting can be easy, like anything to do with computers, it can get rather painful when things go wrong.Find out more about the quality shared hosting provided by Hosting Direct.
Shared hosting is when your website is on the same server as many other of a web hosts clients. While you personally might have a reseller account, that will be in addition to many other clients having reseller and single shared hosting accounts.
Shared hosting and database servers
Sometimes you will have a database server on another machine. The database server connection can be rather slow. So while its great to give other machines some of the database grunt work, a separate server can also have its drawbacks.Shared hosting and email
Email can take up a large amount of server resources, and is better hosted on another load balanced group of servers. Often email is stored on the same shared server, and this is another reason why your website response time can go down.Shared hosting and email newsletters
All it takes is for a busy forum to have a few replies to large threads, or a website send out a newsletter, and server resources can be maxed out very easily.Response times of International v New Zealand Hosting
The speed of light is a rather important consideration. At around 200ms to the USA compared to less than 30ms in the same city, where you host your website compared to your main traffic can be an interesting consideration.At SMHosting, we recommend shared hosting provided by Hosting Direct.
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