11-10-2024, 04:58 AM
May 15th, 2012
The short explanation is that cheap "web hosting" has fairly poor performance because you're sharing resources with dozens of other sites. As they name suggests, you can only have "web" sites. If you need a service that's not a website, you're out of luck.
Running a server from a virtual machine isn't all that hard depending on how you configure it. There's a few security enhancements you'll want to do. You'll need to update software, but that can be done easily by installing as much as you can through packages and honestly the hardest part of that applies to web hosting since website software and scripts generally aren't installed through packages.
The short explanation is that cheap "web hosting" has fairly poor performance because you're sharing resources with dozens of other sites. As they name suggests, you can only have "web" sites. If you need a service that's not a website, you're out of luck.
Running a server from a virtual machine isn't all that hard depending on how you configure it. There's a few security enhancements you'll want to do. You'll need to update software, but that can be done easily by installing as much as you can through packages and honestly the hardest part of that applies to web hosting since website software and scripts generally aren't installed through packages.