Why Should I Upgrade To a Dedicated Server Instead of a VPS

• Eqservers
• Dedicated Server Tutorials
• 15/09/2014

A web hosting account that crashes or slows down when your website needs it most is a deterrent to your business plans. A dedicated server can handle both planned growth and sudden surge of traffic to your website. It can be designed to accommodate all the traffic your website can generate at any given point of time.

What is Dedicated Server Hosting?

Dedicated servers are the most powerful platforms for websites and apps. A dedicated server hosting account allows a business to lease the resources of a physical server exclusively. They are best suited to support hardware and network intensive websites. Although packages vary, in general, the service provider manages the hardware and monitors the network for uptime. A managed dedicated hosting provider assists with day to day maintenance allowing a business to concentrate on its core operations.

Websites tend to grow in size and attract more traffic over a period of time. Most web based businesses start off with a shared webhosting plan. When they outgrow the resources of a shared hosting plan, the next logical upgrade is a dedicated server not VPS. Let’s take a look at the benefits of upgrading to a Dedicated Server:

Greater Control

Dedicated servers offer greater control over hardware, server resources and the network. You can also install any software your website needs and tweak the configurations for best results. They are faster and prepared to handle growing storage needs.

Reliability

Dedicated servers can be prepared for a sudden surge of traffic. VPS configurations are generally not designed to handle multiple surges at the same time. All VPS hosting configurations are known to slow down when multiple accounts need resources at the same time because they share the resources of the same server. Juggling resources between accounts can also cause a VPS server to stop responding for a few crucial moments or crash due to the load.

Scalable resources

Resources on a dedicated server can be scaled to meet a website’s present and future requirements. A VPS account on the other hand has to be moved to a different server, which means downtime. Advertisements will want you to believe that VPS is a better choice but it comes with all the inherent disadvantages of a shared web hosting account albeit at a higher cost. A popular website will eventually outgrow the resources of a VPS plan and need to upgrade to a dedicated server anyway.

Long term benefits

Web based businesses opt for virtual private servers over dedicated servers for short term cost benefits. They overlook the long term benefits of investing in a dedicated server upfront and the fact that virtual private servers are more or less bloated versions of shared web hosting plans.