What You'll Want To Know Concerning The Benefits Of A Dedicated Server

By Rupert T Alkire

The advantages of a dedicated server can best be described by the following analogy. Suppose you wanted an automobile. You can not afford to buy one for your self, so you decided to go in with four buddies and everybody would own a piece of the automobile. This meant that even though it was cheaper for everyone, they all had to share the automobile. A schedule would be worked out and everyone would abide by the schedule of when they could use the automobile.

Now suppose, all of a sudden, you got a job where you required the automobile a lot more often. But you only had access to the car on particular days at particular occasions and the job would not wait. Since the automobile is just as much of your friend's automobile as yours, they're also entitled to use it. You end up losing the job opportunity because you can't use the automobile all the time.

The above is similar to the difference between a company utilizing a dedicated server and a shared server. A dedicated server, just as the name implies, is "dedicated" to serving only your company. This means that you do not have to share space and bandwidth with other online business websites.

Whilst a small company or personal website can do well with a shared server, a sizable or expanding company would find a shared server just as much of a disaster as the automobile analogy illustrated earlier in this article. There's only a particular amount of bandwidth in a server. It can only permit a certain amount of visitors through at a particular time.

Bandwidth can be compared to a toll booth. The toll booth permits a certain quantity of traffic through at a time on a scheduled basis. This works out fine, unless everybody decides to leave town at the same time and take the toll road. Then it becomes a disaster as people wait for hours to get through the toll booth.

While you might wait for hours to get through a toll booth when you have to leave town and have no other way to do so, your clients won't wait hours to get to your website if you don't have enough bandwidth. Chances are that if they try your website once and can't get on, they'll move on never to return again.

Although a dedicated server costs much more in monthly fees than a shared server, it might end up saving you money if you are losing customers due to the fact that they cannot get access to your website because your server can't accommodate the visitors.

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