Which Are The Advantages of a Dedicated Server?

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

By Ricardo d Argence

Picture this: suppose you want a car, but, you don't have enough money to buy one for yourself, so you go in with four friends and everyone own a piece of the automobile. A schedule would be worked out and everyone would abide by the schedule of when they could use the car.

But, if you take a job where you need a car more often this might mean trouble. However you you can only use the car on limited days and at limited times, and the job wouldn't wait. Because the car is just as much of your friends car as yours, they are also entitled to use it. So, you miss out of the chance at employment since you aren't able to use the automobile whenever you need it.

The aforementioned resembles the contrast between a company utilizing a dedicated or a shared server. The definition of a dedicated server is one that is 'dedicated' or committed solely to serving your company.

Shared servers aren't for everyone! A small company may find them very useful; on the other hand, a large business may find them useless! A server can only take in and send out a certain amount of data per second, and it can only permit a finite amount of traffic in and out at any particular moment.

A good way of understanding bandwidth is the analogy of a toll collection booth. The toll booth allows a certain amount of traffic through at a time on a scheduled basis. This is great, until everyone needs to take the same highway out of town, and they all choose the toll road. Then it becomes a disaster as people wait for hours to get through the toll booth.

While you may wait for hours to get through a toll booth if you have to leave town and have no other way to do so, your customers will not wait hours to get to your website if you do not have enough bandwidth. Chances are, that if they try your website once and cannot get on, they will move on never to return again.

You work so hard trying to attract traffic to your website, it is a shame to throw that hard work out the window by not having enough bandwidth to accommodate all of your customers. This is the advantage of having a dedicated server, no longer do you have to share space or bandwidth with other businesses on the server. The server is dedicated only to your business, enabling traffic to flow quickly and smoothly.

Although a dedicated server costs more in monthly fees than a shared server, it may end up saving you money if you are losing customers due to the fact that the cannot get access to your website because your server cannot accommodate the traffic. If you have a large or growing business, a dedicated server is the only way to go. - 20764

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