You would be amazed at the amount of social networking and community software tools that are on the market today.\u00a0 The immense popularity of MySpace, Facebook and YouTube has encouraged many people to create their own online community.\u00a0 Community sites are expansive in topics, ranging from sites such as dating and video sharing to pets and video games.\u00a0 \u00a0Below are just a few of the many options that exist for online communities:<\/p>\n
Social networking sites<\/p>\n
Social media sites<\/p>\n
News publishing sites<\/p>\n
Dating sites<\/p>\n
Blog sites<\/p>\n
Video sharing sites<\/p>\n
Photo sharing sites<\/p>\n
What Type of Hosting Do You Need? <\/strong><\/p>\n Web hosting plays a huge role in the creation of these types of community sites.\u00a0 Such a website requires an added dose of power in comparison to the typical website.\u00a0 However, what it requires the most is a scalable environment that supports the growth of the community.\u00a0 As your site increases in popularity, it will attract more users, which means it will be populated with more pictures, videos and possibly other interactive features.\u00a0\u00a0 This tremendous growth means that the average shared hosting package may not suitable for the needs of your community.\u00a0 You have to consider critical resources such as disk space, bandwidth, RAM and CPU, all of which impact the overall performance of your website.\u00a0 While you might be able to pull this off on a shared hosting platform from a technical aspect, your community could be the one to suffer from slow loading pages and sluggish performance.<\/p>\n A dedicated server makes for one of the most reliable ways to host an online community.\u00a0 This type of hosting will give you the scalability you need and dramatically reduce the occurrence of performance issues you would endure on a shared server.\u00a0 The problem is that maintaining a dedicated server can be very complex and expensive.\u00a0 Leasing the server can run you upwards of $100 per month \u2013 and this is just for an unmanaged service.\u00a0 If you choose to run your community on a dedicated server, keep in mind that you will be responsible for updating the operating system and web server software in addition to managing all the applications and security mechanisms it requires.\u00a0\u00a0 This is something many people simply are not equipped to deal with.\u00a0 For this reason, you should strongly consider looking into a service provider that specializes in community hosting as they are more likely to have the unqiue environment you require.<\/p>\n Conclusion <\/strong><\/p>\n A community site can be very beneficial, but only when choosing the right web hosting solution.\u00a0 Before heading out to look for a service, take both the present and future growth into account when factoring in your requirements.\u00a0\u00a0 Think about the features you need, the type of content and media you plan to host, and the volume of traffic you anticipate.\u00a0 If you truly want your community site to be a success, don\u2019t hesitate to ask prospective web hosts questions and find out exactly how they can suit your needs.\u00a0 This will make it much easier to find the ideal solution for your online community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You would be amazed at the amount of social networking and community software tools that are on the market today.\u00a0 The immense popularity of MySpace, Facebook and YouTube has encouraged…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1399,1400,94,628,805,1402,1403,1239,268,1394],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting-types","tag-communitry-hosting","tag-community-software-tools","tag-dedicated-server","tag-facebook","tag-myspace","tag-news-publishing-sites","tag-scalable-environment","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-youtube"],"views":109,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}