Growing websites urged towards dedicated servers

Online businesses might decide to use shared hosting when they start out but they should turn to a dedicated sever when their traffic increases, it is claimed.

A blogger writing for the website Internet Marketing for Beginners states that shared web hosting can help firms keep costs low.

However, they urge webmasters of sites which are "really taking off" to look at dedicated servers.

"Usually, these specialised servers are housed in a secure data centre, which also provides extra services, such as environmental control, power backup systems, security and the needed connection to the internet," the commentator continues.

Businesses can use a dedicated server provider and therefore avoid investing in their own in-house server and software, he says.

Earlier this month, sector reporter Akash Zamanb said that increased traffic may be an excellent situation for a business but that without a dedicated server, such a lucrative situation can simply cause problems.