Imagine you are a home-based programmer and you use your desktop computer for your work. Imagine again that your kids too use your computer, when you are not working, to chat online or to send and receive emails. A scenario such as this works fine until one fine morning you discover your computer has stopped functioning and all your data is lost. Not because you did something wrong but because your kids have inadvertently let in a virus that has wreaked havoc on your computer. What would you do? Logic suggests you stop your kids using your computer so that your hard work is not wasted this way.

Dedicated web hosting is similar to this concept. If you choose not to allow any other website to be hosted on your server, you are in fact opting for dedicated web hosting. Who may need dedicated web hosting? For many companies, data security is a major issue. Think of multinational banks or credit card companies. Since they store and transmit sensitive data of their customers, it is imperative that any possibility of data theft or manipulation is completely eliminated. Dedicated web hosting is a necessity for them.