
The benefits of a dedicated server can best be represented by the analogy indicated below: Let us suppose you desired an automobile and, as you couldn’t find the money to purchase one for yourself, you choose to to join up with some friends of yours and everyone would own a piece of the car. What this means is that although it is less expensive for everyone concerned, they will all have to share the automobile so a schedule would need to be arranged and everyone would know exactly when they could drive the car. Let’s suppose, suddenly, you got a job where you needed the car a lot more often but you could only have the car on certain days at particular times but the job you had been offered just would not wait. Unfortunately the automobile is your friends car as yours, so they are also entitled to use it. Because of this you might not get the job chance because you can’t make use of the automobile when you please.
The above is similar to the difference between a online business utilizing a dedicated server and a common server. If you think about it, a dedicated server, just as the term implies, is ‘committed’ to servicing only your Internet business. The benefit of this is you do not have to share space and bandwidth with other online business websites. While a small online business or personal site can do well with a common server, a big or growing online business would find a common server just as much of a disaster as the car analogy illustrated earlier in this article. Unfortunately, there is only a particular amount of bandwidth in a server so it can only provide a certain amount of traffic through during any one time.
Bandwidth can be likened to a toll booth which allows a particular amount of visitors through at a time. This works out fine, unless everybody determines to leave work at the sametime and drive on the road. This is a recipe for disaster as individuals wait for hours to get through the toll booth. Although many people may wait for a period to get to the toll booth if you have no other choice, your customers will not wait to gain access to your site if you do not have sufficient bandwidth. There is a good chance that if they try your web site and are unable access it, they will leave, and it is unlikley they will return.
When you take a great deal of effort to pull in visitors to your site, it is a pity to throw that hard work out the window by by having an insufficient facility for information that can be transferred to accommodate all of your clients. This is why businesses have a dedicated server because, no longer do you need to share storage space or the amount of data that can be transferred on the shared service with other firms it is dedicated only to your online business, permitting data to flow quickly and smoothly. Even though it costs more in monthly fees than a shared server, it will probably save you you money if you are losing clients because they cannot get on to to your site.