The enormous advantages of a dedicated server are best represented by the analogy below: Just suppose you really wanted an automobile and, as you could not afford to purchase one for yourself, you resolve to to join some friends and and then everyone who bought it would own a a share of the car. Of course, although it is less costly for everyone concerned, they will need to share the car so an agenda would have to be carefully arranged and each part owner will know when they could drive the automobile. Now suppose, all of a sudden, you were offered a job where you needed the automobile a lot more often but you only had access to the car on certain days at particular times but the job you had been offered just would not wait. Regrettably automobile is just as much of your friends car as yours, so they are also entitled to use it. You end up losing the job chance because you cannot make use of the automobile all of the time.
The above is similar to the difference between a business using a dedicated server and a common server. You see a dedicated server, just as the phrase implies, is ‘committed’ to servicing only your Internet business. This of course means you do not have to share storage space and the restriction on the amount of data that can be transferred with other Internet business web sites. While a tiny business or individual website can do well with a shared server, a large or growing Internet business would discover a common server just as much of a disaster as the car analogy illustrated earlier in this article. There is only a particular amount of bandwidth in a server so it can only allow a particular amount of traffic through at any particular moment.
Bandwidth can be compared to a toll booth which permits a particular volume of visitors through at any one time. Most of the time this works just fine, unless everyone decides to leave town at the sametime and take the toll road. This is a recipe for disaster as people wait for a long time to gain access to toll road. Although many people may wait for hours to get to the toll booth if you have to leave town and have no other way to do so, your clients will not wait to gain access to your website if you do not have sufficient bandwidth. There is a good chance that if they attempt to get onto your site and cannot get on, they will leave, never to return again.
Because it requires a lot of work to attract traffic to your website, it is a shame to waste all that effort by by having an insufficient facility for information that can be transferred to cater for all of your clients. This is of course, the primary benefit of having a dedicated server because, no longer do you need to share space or bandwidth with other firms it is entirely dedicated only to your business, permitting data to flow without delay. Even though it costs more in monthly charges than a common server, it will more than likely save you money if you are losing customers due to the fact that the cannot get access to your website.
