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Originally Posted by blacknight  With VPS / Dedicated you have a lot more control over the environment. |
But which also would mean that it would have to be well set up. Wouldn't a half arsed set-up of a dedicated server be less secure than any shared set-up?
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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.
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Yes, actually. Good point. if you wanted to dabble in other technologies, you would be more restricted.
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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.
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Actually, that happened me a few times. A very famous lecturer in a uni in the USA died, and his website was fairly video heavy. Hosted on the same server as our own one. Google put an RIP link onto their front page, and before I knew it, I was getting an apology from Bluehost for the servers been so slow.
That pretty much answers all my questions, thanks mr. blacknight! Very helpful info.