| When we talk about dedicated servers, we mean an | | | | Memory and bandwidth performance. Also, web |
| entire server which is usually configured to serve a | | | | hosting providers which offer dedicated servers are |
| single website. This means that you have full | | | | usually more established and larger compared to |
| administrative access to the root files for better | | | | other hosting companies. |
| manipulation. The website administrators of the | | | | VPS works the same way as dedicated servers and |
| dedicated server can select the operating system for | | | | even if you share the same server with other clients, |
| their server, install applications for web development, | | | | you will still have your own private part which is |
| create users and grant permissions. | | | | inaccessible to other clients. Aside from this, your |
| Basically dedicated server hosting is a regular server | | | | site's performance is unaffected by the others. This |
| that is hosted in web hosting provider farm. | | | | type of hosting is intended for smaller companies. |
| On the other hand, VPS or virtual private server is | | | | Today, however, a lot of big companies are already |
| like physical server (you see no difference in | | | | considering VPS as a way of cutting costs. The only |
| management point of view). Just like dedicated | | | | thing that you need to ensure is that your hosting |
| server, it allows clients to have root access and is | | | | provider is not over sealing, I mean that he doesn't |
| able to change settings, and grant permissions for | | | | put too many VPS servers in single physical server. |
| different users. However, the main difference | | | | Many big companies fear to make the choice of VPS |
| between a dedicated server and a VPS is the | | | | vs. dedicated servers due to the uncomfortable idea |
| hardware. Virtualization technologies allow running | | | | that the single server could collapse under the hosting |
| multiple virtual servers on single hardware. By | | | | requirements of multiple different companies. This |
| combining several virtual machines on 1 physical | | | | fear may be unfounded because these virtual |
| server allows cutting costs on electricity and | | | | servers do not have direct access to the hardware |
| hardware. | | | | that they share. However Virtualization technology is |
| In order to determine which of these two is | | | | here for a few years now and there are lot of HA |
| preferred for your site, you need to know what the | | | | solutions , just remember to ask your hosting about |
| servers are for. Dedicated servers are intended for | | | | HA and Disaster Recovery in case of hardware |
| clients who have very loaded websites and receive a | | | | failure . You should check hosting SLA in any case no |
| huge amount of traffic or database queries. This kind | | | | matter which technology you chose. |
| of server is preferable because of its high CPU | | | | |