I already wrote articles before about webhosts. Few of those articles are:

• Picking the right webhost for your blog
• Best webhost for your blog

But I think those articles are already obsolete. I wanted to edit them but I think, it would be better if I will write a new one.

And few days ago, I also published an article related to webhost or webhosting. The article has a title, “Avoiding Blog Downtimes“.

On that article, I mentioned that “a shared server is not the best server for a  blog that caters thousands of visitors a day“.

Why shared server is not best for your busy blog?

The shared server is a server that hosts hundreds or thousands of webhosting accounts in which the total server’s resources are being shared by websites of every account hosted by that server.

The number 1 disadvantage of a shared server is that when a website caused trouble to the server by simply eating up the resources, all websites hosted by that server will be affected.

That’s what this blog (SELaplana) had actually experienced since its early existing up to the time when I decided to transfer it to a VPS server.

Before, you’d always noticed that when accessing this blog, your browser would tell you an error had been encountered by this blog. Most of the time, this blog had the error in connecting to the database. But there were also times that the server of this blog was simply inaccessible due to its firewall problem or was simply dead.

So, what kind of webhost’s server that is best for a busy blog?

You have actually two options to choose:

1. VPS (Virtual Private Server)
2. Dedicated Server

VPS or Virtual Private Server

Virtual Private Server or sometimes called as Virtual Dedicated Server acts like a dedicated server even if it is part a server shared by other webhosting accounts. It can be best compared to an apartment building which is divided into the apartment units and each apartment unit has its own and independent power and water supply.

In other words, a VPS is a server divided into partitions of servers of which each partition acts like a dedicated server. Each of the partitions has its own operating system, disk space, memory allocation and can be rebooted without affecting other partitions.

VPS is more expensive that a shared server but is cheaper than the real or physical dedicated server.

Here’s few of the VPS offered by popular webhosting companies. It includes  info about them. Some bloggers that I knew got hosting solution from them.

• InMotionHosting
  - Plan 256M - $49.95/mo (if monthly billing)
  - Memory: 256MB - 1GB
  - Disk Space: 40GB
  - Bandwidth: 500GB
  - Websites to host: Unlimited
  - Park Domains to use: Unlimited
  - IP : 2
• Media Temple DV
  - $50/mo (if monthly payment)
  - Memory: 256MB
  - Disk Space:  20 GB
  - Bandwidth: 1,000GB
  - Websites to host: unlimited (can be used as reseller)
• DreamHost PS + PS - MySQL
  - 256MB DreamHost PS: $25.6/mo + 150MB PS-MySQL: $15/mo = $32.48/mo with 20% discount. (DreamHost PS and PS-MySQL are adjustable from 150MB up)
  - Plus $119.4/1-year hosting
  - Other features: unlimited

Dedicated Server

A dedicated server is a single unit of server which is offered to a single client. In other words, if you’ll get a dedicated server, there’s no other client who can share that server from you. Except of course if you’ll share it with your friends.

So, a dedicated server is more expensive than the VPS, considering that the whole server is being rented by you.

Few of my friends recommended to me the Host Gator’s Dedicated server.  The price of the Linux server at the HostGator ranges from $174/mo to $374/mo depending on the processor used by the server.

More VPS and Dedicated Server

I know that some of you got your own VPS or Dedicated Server for your websites of blogs. Please share something to us about your servers, for to learn something that would help us decide what webhost is best for us.