Why are dedicated servers (hosting) more secured than shared hosting?

[Beverly]

I have read how dedicated servers are more secure than shared hosting. Can you please explain to me why this is true? Also, what are the best reasons to use a dedicated server, especially when it comes to enhanced security.

 

[Xandria]

With shared hosting, your site can fall victim to malware, viruses or intrusion hacks when other sites on the same server have poor security measures. However, with a dedicated server, the entire server is only available to you, so the security issues of other sites won't affect yours. The only people who would have access to your site other than yourself (and your IT team) are the staff of the site which manages your hosting. And, these people are very invested in keeping you safe.

 

[hostperl]

dedicated hosting is more secured than shared because in this you use their own server and nobody can share it.

 

[wavyit]

A dedicated server is an entire server configured for you rather than shared hosting.

 

[HudsonValleyHost]

Dedicated servers are not shared by other users.

 

[ronnel]

On a dedicated server, you have full control, and full access and full resources. But on a shared hosting you only have to manage your allocated space. And if a website, is loaded on the shared hosting, it can affect your visitors also causing lags.

 

[naitan]

Dedicated Server, an exclusive services refers to the rental use of specified computer system suitable for those who seeking for a high stability server, which is have more security and no need to share hard disk space with other users. Moreover, dedicated server could be maintained or managing the server space by its own users too.

 

[Cloudcone]

Hi :shy:

Dedicated hosting is more secured than shared hosting because dedicated hosting means that the server that you buy is "dedicated" to you and only you. There is no sharing of any sort. Also dedicated servers are hosted on data centres to which access is very limited and are located in highly secured colocations (this is generally the case, of course there can be less safe locations).

The physical machine on which a shared server is hosted can differ and since this is the most basic type of hosting, many users share resources and server space. So if one user gets attacked by malicious software or if one user is a malicious user, it is highly likely that the rest of the users will be affected badly by this. Also for the shared hosting user it is not possible to harden their server. Hardening means maximizing the security of your server by an integration of different means and methods for a more wholesome experience of safety. So in a shared hosting environment it is highly unlikely that you will have access to do the necessary configurations.

Hope this helped.

 

[OctaBaz]

on a shared hosting, the system is managed by the administrator and he himself control complete server but many time in use to exploit server users try different methods which result in the low performance of the server and many time your data is also lost but on the other hand on shared hosting you will receive a system which is modified according to your requirement.

On dedicated server you can control system fully but you have to modify system setting according to your requirement and it is costly too

 

[Radi]

You have full control over your server, and it isn't shared with other people. Of course, I should warn you that you have to secure it and take care of it as with this also comes responsibility.

 

[joel lee]

As there are some benefits of dedicated hosting which makes more secured than shared hosting -

Server resources are not shared
Enhanced performance
Enhanced security
Flexibility
Unique IP address
No overhead for purchasing or maintaining Equipment

 

[tuxandrew]

In shared hosting servers all the resources on the server is shared among different accounts hosted on the server. The server might be owned by you or belongs to any hosting provider.

When considering a dedicated, the dedicated server is a server purchased by you and hosted your own stuff, the sole proprietary ship and authorization of the server will be your's. No one can host anything on the server without your permission.

In the case of security, a dedicated server would be more secure compared to shared hosting server, the number of targeted attacks towards dedicated server will be less compared to the accounts/domains hosted on a shared hosting server.

And the possibilities of potential vulnerabilities appears in different hosting accounts on shared server will be high compared to the account hosted in a dedicated server. Any hack attempts on a single account on shared server might possibly affect all other accounts.

You can implement specific security measure that you required, for your application hosted on your dedicated server, but the security implementation/server hardening will be done for generic vulnerabilities/threats.