Dedicated Web Hosting

Hosting needs will vary from project to project and from webmaster to webmaster. Dedicated hosting, although typically the most expensive form of website hosting, does provide for many very attractive benefits not possible with other hosting options. You are leasing an entire web server, for only your use, from the hosting company. This differs from shared hosting options in which multiple webmasters share one server, and you have zero control over their activity and their actions.
1.    You control your own server – With a dedicated hosting package you are leasing an entire server from the hosting company. Whereas with other hosting options you are sharing a server with other webmasters, with a dedicated server you control the server, its content, its operating software, its modules, and its operation. You are able to do with it as you wish. There is peace of mind in this setup and it offers the greatest degree of professional control. However, at a price, which often includes an initial one-time setup fee.
2.    You alone manage the server – Being responsible for the complete management of the dedicated server is an advantage in that you entirely control how the server operates, what sites you host, and all other aspects. This is also a disadvantage if you are inexperienced in managing servers since you and only you are responsible for fixing something that no longer works, or if you want changes to be made. Managed dedicated server packages are available, typically for a higher price, in which technical teams will help you manage your server and fix it when something goes wrong.
3.    You benefit from the full resources of the server – If the server has 500GB of disk space, 4MB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU, that is YOUR disk space, RAM, and CPU bank. You don’t share it with anyone else. This advantage comes into play if you have high traffic sites, or sites requiring intensive CPU load. Your server is more likely to handle these situations when your alone have access to the server resources. This is not the case in shared server setups where sites compete for the server resources and situations can occur where performance of your site(s) are affected by other peoples’ sites on the same server.
4.    Greater freedom with add-ons and configuration – Shared hosting systems are often cookie cutter solutions and since the entire server is shared with other webmasters, your need for increased or changed resources cannot always be accommodated without moving to another server. In a dedicated setup, modules and add-ons can easily be removed and added to meet your needs.
5.    Room to grow – In scalable web businesses dedicated hosting allows for ‘room to grow’ that is not afforded in other hosting options. If the traffic for one of your sites doubles within a week often simple upgrades for RAM, CPU, or bandwidth can be purchased separately to accommodate the increased loads.
6.    Ability to resell – Depending on the hosting company you are leasing your dedicated server from, you may have the option to sell hosting on your server to other webmasters, “reselling”. In cases where you do not fully utilize the resources on your server, or only run a couple of smallish sites, you may choose to offer hosting on your server to other webmasters for their sites.