Difference between Shared and Dedicated Cloud Hosting

 Technical Skills: With shared hosting, you will not require much technical skills as maintenance and security are managed by the shared hosting provider. With a dedicated server, you will need webmaster skills to set up, administer, and manage the server. However, fully managed dedicated hosting plans are available which will be more expensive.

Security: With shared hosting, the hosting company installs firewalls and server security applications and programs. Securing a dedicated server will be your responsibility. You will be able to control the security programs you install and because you are the only one on the server there are less chances of acquiring viruses, malware and spyware. There is a higher risk with shared hostingbecause of others using the same server.

Blacklisting Of Website: In a shared server, there is more of a risk of being blacklisted by search engines because someone else on the server engaging in such practices as spamming may get the entire IP address blacklisted. On a dedicated server, you will not get blacklisted unless you engage in unethical internet practices.

Server Performance and Response Time: On shared hosting, with other sharing the same resources, allot of traffic can be generated which could drain resources such as bandwidth which could lead to slow response time and slow loading time. This does not happen on a dedicated server because you are not sharing resources.

 
Bandwidth or Disk Space: With shared hosting, the amount of disk space and bandwidth you are allocatted  is limited because there are others sharing the server and  be charged if you surpass the allocated space. With dedicated hosting, bandwidth and disk space are dedicated to you only so there is no sharing and no limitations on the amount of space available space.

Costs: The cost is cheaper with shared hosting because server resources are shared among several clients  Because a dedicated server is dedicated solely to one user, it cost more.