Where your website lives (i.e. hosting server) is an important decision during the web development process. Visual Edge’s project managers and developers will provide recommendations regarding hosting providers and hosting plans to help you select the solution right for you. We have “in-house” options as well as 3rd party recommendations. While you can choose to host with our providers, we allow our customers to make their own choices related to hosting. As long as we know your provider and account information we can continue to support your website and maintain no matter where you decide to host your website.

We are often asked what the difference is between shared and dedicated hosting. Below is a brief description. Your project manager will be able to tell you which solution is recommended for your project.

• Shared hosting – This means that you are essentially sharing a server’s resources with other websites on the same machine. Ninety percent of the time, this is the preferred approach as the advantages are a much less expensive solution with many of the same features you would find in a dedicated environment.
• Dedicated hosting – In this case, your website would be the only one on a particular server and would have all of the system resources available at your disposal. While this is a more costly alternative to the shared hosting environment, for highly trafficked sites or sites with specific configurations, this might be the only option.