Imagine you wanted an automobile and you could not pay for it, so you decided to go in with four friends and everyone would own a piece of the automobile. While it was cheaper everyone had to share a car. A schedule would be worked out and everyone would abide by the schedule of when they could use the car.

But, if you take a job where you need a car more often this might mean trouble. However you you can only use the car on limited days and at limited times, and the job wouldn’t wait. Because the car is just as much of your friends car as yours, they are also entitled to use it. So, you miss out of the chance at employment since you aren’t able to use the automobile whenever you need it.

The lines above are pretty much the same as a business choosing between using a dedicated or a shared server. A dedicated server is one that sevices your business only.

If your business is small, you can get by with a shared server, but if you have a very large or blossoming business, then you would find a shared server to be just as distressful as the car analogy that we gave earlier in this writing. Servers have just a set bandwidth amount, which permits just a limited quantity of traffic to enter in a given period of time.

Bandwidth can be compared to a toll booth. The toll booth allows a certain amount of traffic through at a time on a scheduled basis. This works out fine, unless everyone decides to leave town at the same time and take the toll road. Then it becomes a disaster as people wait for hours to get through the toll booth.

While you may wait for hours to get through a toll booth if you have to leave town and have no other way to do so, your customers will not wait hours to get to your website if you do not have enough bandwidth. Chances are, that if they try your website once and cannot get on, they will move on never to return again.

After you get customers to your website, the risk of them being turned away because your shared server does not provide enough bandwidth is not worth it. No longer do you have to share space or bandwidth with other bussiness on the server, that this is the main advantage of having a dedicated server. The server is dedicated only to your business, enabling traffic to flow quickly and smoothly.

Although a dedicated server costs more in monthly fees than a shared server, it may end up saving you money if you are losing customers due to the fact that the cannot get access to your website because your server cannot accommodate the traffic. If you have a large or growing business, a dedicated server is the only way to go.

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