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Originally Posted by nevf  Yes, as you can see - I'm surprised I even know what a server is...
care to enlighten me as to what the issues surrounding shared hosting in comparisons with VPS/dedicated are? |
With VPS / Dedicated you have a lot more control over the environment.
On a shared server you have to deal with whatever the provider has provided in the manner in which it has been provided.
From a security perspective that means that it would be quite typical to find a lot more ports open to the outside world eg. MySQL, POP, IMAP, SMTP etc. etc.
You also have no way of knowing what other users are up to, so if another user on the same server were to be slashdotted or hit the frontpage of Digg you / your clients could suffer the consequences.