Jun 3, 2012
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Does shared hosting hold some benefits over a VPS? [closed]

Question

I was looking a for a windows host for my ASP.NET MVC app and the prices in softsyshosting looked very decent. However i fail to understand, why do they offer codename “Enterprise” Shared hosting at the same price point as the codename “Economy” VPS ?

Enterprise Shared: http://www.softsyshosting.com/windows.aspx

The First Economy VPS: http://www.softsyshosting.com/windows-vps.aspx

Why would someone be willing to pay the same amount of money for 350GB less bandwith, less database storage, less disk space, no RDP control .. ?

Asked by John Nevermore

Answer

Generally speaking, the main benefit of shared hosting is that you are not responsible for operating system maintenance, library/application server patches, security, etc.

Conversely, VPS hosting offers more flexibility in configuration, and depending on the provider, offers higher performance. (though this may not always be true)

Answered by ErikA

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