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VPS vs. Dedicated Hosting

Written by Posted On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 21:38

Virtual Private Servers (VPS):

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) have boomed in popularity because they give you greater control and superior performance than shared hosting: they are a cost-effective solution for your needs compared to Dedicated Servers.

With VPS hosting, you have the benefits of a private server and have your own control panel. The server shares physical resources (e.g. disk space, CPU and RAM) with all accounts on the machine, giving you your own allocated CPU, RAM and disk space. The overall CPU and memory are equally shared by all of the accounts on the server: giving you control and power of a dedicated server but with the advantage of scalability.

 

Dedicated Servers: 

Unlike VPS, a Dedicated Server is a physical server that is only used by you: it is completely isolated and does not share CPU, memory or RAM with any other user.

This provides you with peace of mind: your data is securely stored as no third party activities can affect your services. Dedicated Servers also offer significant processing power for demanding applications and high resource processing as all of the resources (CPU, memory, RAM) are for your sole use.

Virtual Private Servers VS Dedicated Servers: 

But how do you decide on the best web hosting package? There are key aspects to consider, when comparing and contrasting VPS and Dedicated servers:

Cost and Security: 

 

Compared to shared hosting, VPS are more expensive, but are still cheaper than Dedicated Servers. Shared hosting like Wordpress is free, but VPS offers a stronger business case when you consider value for money, scalability and availability of servers.

In a digital age of cybercrime, viruses and hackers, online security is vital to protect your content, legal rights and company assets. It goes without saying that you should be proactive, vigilant and responsible with your security protection on all of your devices.

The main advantage of Dedicated servers is that they are more physically secure than VPS. You are the only client using that server: even more reason to be vigilant and up-to-date with your server protection.

Flexibility and Scaleabilty: 

VPS are extremely scalable with no downtime required: you can upgrade hardware such as extra CPU, RAM or hard disk space. Compared to VPS, Cloud VPS has a huge potential for upward scaling.

On the other hand, if you chose a Dedicated Server, you would need to allow for expansion growth, and purchase more space than you need, to avoid expensive periods of downtime, while an engineer increased the memory and computing power of your Dedicated Server. The only way of scaling the computing power of Dedicated servers is to:

• Add additional hardware resources, such as RAM modules or CPU units; or

• Balance the load across multiple Dedicated Servers.

Management and Reliability 

If you want the cheapest option for reliability and uptime, then a Cloud VPS configuration is the best option. This is because your data is stored in the cloud across several physical servers. Cheap companies like GoDaddy provide hosting at low prices.

A Dedicated Server could provide a similar reliability, but this would require a more powerful and more expensive server. This expense is due to the fact that you would need additional hardware components (additional hard drives and RAID capability), as well as downtime while an engineer configured the physical servers.

Suitability: 

VPS are suitable for high traffic websites, small business owners, bloggers and everyone that needs the power of a dedicated server at a lower price.

If a VPS cannot satisfy your needs due to your security requirements then a dedicated server is the best solution for you.

If you are a business and you require a secure server option then a Dedicated Server is the best choice for you. However, this security and peace of mind that you are the only user with access to the physical server will come at an expensive price.

In contrast, if you are a blogger or require a server at a lower price, then VPS is the best choice for you when security is not such an important factor.

In recent years, WordPress has become very popular as an online host because of its power and ease in automatically compressing & updating your files; backing up your data; and optimizing your website. Although WordPress does not scale well and can be hacked, it offers the same performance benefits of VPS and as a dedicated hosting, you are paying professionals to manage it for you.

So VPS or Dedicated Servers? 

Dedicated Servers are ideal for you, if:

• You want the security of knowing the server is wholly dedicated to you;

• You want 100% of the hard drive storage capacity, memory, processing power, and network access to be dedicated to you.

A great place to go for a dedicated server hosting is Web 24.

VPS is a perfect solution if:

• You are looking for a cost-effective option;

• You don’t mind sharing hard drive capacity with other web-hosting customers and multiple VPS customers.

A great place to go for VPS hosting is Crucial.

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