shared vs dedicated

[harvt5]

Hi,

I've heard that shared hosting is
-not that secure
-and it's slower

site i'm thinking of is 200MB.. of HTML files each 100KB. and , and btw this is an overestimate, max of 1000 people viewing it at a time.

both places I called think shared hosting is -easily- able to handle it..it being just a tiny % of what's available.

The other place did it via cloud, they also said that.

What's the security issue vs dedicated? I suppose if my site itself is attacked, it's in the same situation. But if it's shared. Then the issue is if another site is attacked, then all sites on that IP are very vulnerable. But this if they're a good host, would be a big concern of theirs, not to let all their hosts get vulnerable, so they'd cover the security aspect there I suppose.

 

[Texashiker]

max of 1000 people viewing it at a time.

If this is a database driven site - vbulletin, wordpress, drupal, for 1,000 people at the same time, your probably going to need a dedicated server.

If this is a simple html site with no database hits, a shared server will probably do just fine.

A properly configured shared server will be secure. There is more to hosting security then we can even start to talk about in this thread.

But if it's shared. Then the issue is if another site is attacked, then all sites on that IP are very vulnerable.

Being on "the same ip address" has nothing to do with it.


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I run several forums and wordpress blogs. The largest forum gets around 20,000 unique ip addresses daily, 3,000 - 4,000 post daily, and somewhere around 4.5 million page views monthly. My sties started out on a shared site and finally moved to a dedicated server about 2 years ago. Currently the main forum runs on a dual quad core (8 cpus) Intel Xeon dedicated server with 8 gigs of memory. A couple of my smaller forums and my blog runs on a shared server at hostgator.