Why ClickPress Beats Shared Hosting

Marylin Shahade
August 5, 2024
2 min read

Shared Hosting: The Basics and Beyond

Shared hosting is ideal for new websites and small landing pages with minimal traffic and visitors. But what exactly is shared hosting, and how does it impact your site’s performance, security, and user experience?

What is Shared Hosting?

Shared hosting is a type of web hosting where multiple websites are hosted on a single physical server. Each site shares the server’s resources, including CPU, memory, and disk space. This setup allows hosting providers to keep costs low, making shared hosting a popular choice for beginners and small businesses.

While shared hosting is cost-effective, it comes with significant disadvantages:

  • Performance Issues: Since server resources are shared, high traffic to one website can affect the performance of others. Your website’s loading speed can be inconsistent, leading to a poor user experience.
  • Security Concerns: Shared hosting environments are more vulnerable to security breaches. If one site on the server is compromised, it can impact all other sites, including yours.
  • Limited Customization: When your website faces heavy traffic peaks and requires more resources, upgrading the hosting plan or making immediate adjustments can be complex and challenging with shared hosting. This limitation can hinder your ability to ensure optimal performance and user experience during critical times.

ClickPress Dedicated Hosting: A Game Changer

ClickPress offers dedicated hosting with each WordPress site in its own container, ensuring isolation, optimal performance, and high security. Containers speed up page loading up to 3x, ensuring a great user experience even during traffic peaks. With limitless resources, your site stays fast and online, with only a minimal, transparent fee for additional resources when needed.

Benefits of ClickPress Dedicated Container Hosting

  • Speedy Loading and High Performance: Each container has dedicated resources, ensuring your site loads quickly and performs reliably, even during traffic spikes.
  • Enhanced Security: Containers offer isolated environments, significantly reducing the risk of security breaches. Your site is protected from vulnerabilities affecting other sites on the same server.
  • Scalability and Power: As your website grows, so do its resource needs. ClickPress hosting allows seamless scalability, ensuring your site remains fast and efficient as traffic increases.

While shared hosting might be viable for minor, low-traffic sites, it needs to improve in performance, security, and scalability. ClickPress dedicated container hosting, on the other hand, offers a robust solution designed to meet the demands of modern, high-traffic WordPress websites. By choosing container hosting, you ensure your site is fast, secure, and ready to scale, providing the best user experience and maintaining a strong online presence.

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