Dedicated Vs Shared hosting

I have heard lot of about dedicated hosting, it helps in seo. Are you guys using Dedicated hosting for your websites or shared hosting. How many of you believes it happens

 

Dedicated is always good for them whose site is having huge traffic and who need more bandwidth.

 

it has no bearing imho... i have a reseller account with fasthosts hosting domains relating to wide ranging subjects and have no difficulties... the issues begin when you want to interlink sites as the c would be the same for all domains which google does look for.

so its best to use 3rd party websites like wordtress blogger, angelfire (yes even this) google pages etc to create your 'web'

 

Dedicated is good for big business. I don't think an owner of a blog should pay for dedicated hosting provider.

 

I agree. If you are a starter your option is always Shared Hosting.... But once it grows do some calculation first if you really need to upgrade, but in most cases your Shared Hosting provider will always advice you to upgrade.

 

I have a dedicated server as well as some shared accounts. I have seen people speculate that Google favours sites on dedicated servers as they believe that a company is more 'trustworthy' and professional. It may also be the case that being hosted on a shared account with spam sites may count against you.

Personally though I've never seen any evidence that a dedictaed server actually helps with your SEO, the only instance where it may help is with page load speeds, there wouldn't be any benefit from this, it would just stop slow page loads harming your site - the effect of this would be negligable, plus there are may shared hosts that aren't as slow as they used to be.

Dedicated/shared isn't really a debate worth having in terms of SEO

 

If you are really very serious about your business then choose dedicated hosting.

 

The only thing affecting SEO I can think of here could be a dedicated IP. I.e. if you got your own server you have probably also your own (dedicated) IP. Search engines take into consideration how many websites are at one IP (the less the better), moreover, backlinks from the same IP (i.e. if you have more websites there and are trying to build their PR by linking them) are considered weak ones.

 

I think the effect is too small to be noticeable under a dedicated server. The SEO should be not a criteria to opt for dedicated hosting, unless your website really need a dedicated server.

 

Unless you're doing something that requires the use of a dedicated server, don't worry about it. Plenty of Web sites (and I mean hundreds of millions here) are on shared hosting and do JUST AS WELL in the search engines.

 

I have a dedicated server, but we moved the sites for performance and system administration reasons not SEO. I haven't seen a difference in the SERPs due to the dedicated server. My advice would be to start with shared hosting then move to a 'virtual dedicated' or true dedicated server when your business needs require it.

 

Dedicated server is better because it has dedicated IP(S) and you can also buy a dedicated IP at a shared hosting environment, so I think it's the same

 

Agreed. There is no favorable difference on search engines between dedicated servers and shared hosting. In fact, majority of people have multiple websites on their dedicated server, so how would search engines know the difference if you really think about it; unless your wasting money on multiple IP addresses and even then its detectable. The choice to move from shared to dedicated is when your hosting company tells you that you can't use the shared service anymore due to resource usage violations in their terms of service.

 

Yeah I do agree with most of this post - however I believe that a number of websites on a single IP adress has a slight influence on overall SEO performance.

 

"If" that was true everything I stated would be in-accurate, you do realize that shared hosting servers have all the sites on one IP address I hope; unless you fall for the "unique ip" myth.

 

I don't think it's a myth. For example backlinks from websites on the same IP have less weight - at least in my opinion.

 

Really doesn't depend on dedicated hosting, but dedicated Ip rather, which you can get for shared hosting as well. What really sometimes suck about shared hosting is that you might get penalized for someone else using the same ip! However if you get a unique ip then you are as good as a dedi one.

 

Most of my sites are on shared hosting and I haven't had any problem with google or SEO. If you're on a server and sharing the same IP as quite a few banned from google sites, then you need to worry

 

No difference for SEO as long as they both have enough resources to use........