You can think of your hosting needs as a meal, a lunch a brunch even. As meals comes in different shapes and sizes, so do your hosting wants and needs. Knowing the right meal to pick when your hungry is the difference between if you will need a doggy bag or if you paid too much for something you might not need.
Shared Hosting
You can think of this as the fast food of the hosting world. It is smaller, quicker to setup but if your looking for a deluxe fancy lunch with all the trimmings you had better look elsewhere. Sure, it might feed your hunger – but I am a big guy with big needs. I might want a baked potato on the side, smothered with butter. That would be your real world equivalent to more RAM or CPU usage.
VPS Hosting
Virtual Private Server hosting is the in-between. This would be your TV dinner that is made to look like it came from one of those fancy "high-class" eating establishments. Once you pop it in the microwave it is almost like eating at your favorite expensive restaurant – but it still doesn’t delight your pallet as much as a real meal would. VPS has everything your dedicated hosting would have but it is trimmed down some as far as your limits go.
Dedicated Hosting
Now dedicated hosting would be putting on your suit and tie and going to that all you can eat buffet. You get your server resources, your bandwidth, your disk space and you can do whatever you need to do with your hosting (as long as you stay within the rules of the web host). This type of hosting both fill you up and won’t leave you hungry for more.
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