Picture this: suppose you want a car, but, you don’t have enough money to buy one for yourself, so you go in with four friends and everyone own a piece of the automobile. 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 above is similar to the difference between a business using a dedicated server and a shared server. A dedicated server, just as the name implies, is “dedicated” to serving only your business. This means that you do not have to share space and bandwidth with other online business websites.

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.

You can compare bandwidth with a toll booth. The toll booth allows a certain amount of traffic through at a time on a scheduled basis. Everything turns out okay, until the time that everyone chooses the toll road when they determine they should leave town, all going at the same time. Then it becomes a disaster as people wait for hours to get through the toll booth.

Even if you are the only one in town, customers will not deal with insufficient bandwidth for a longer period. You must be careful, because if they try your website and can not use it, they will never return.

In order to pay off your hard work on the website you’ve been working on for so much time, it’s necessary to have the right amount of bandwidth to hold all your clients. One significatn advantage a dedicated server provides is individual service. You do not share space with others. The server is dedicated only to your business, enabling traffic to flow quickly and smoothly.

You may find that it is more wise to invest in a dedicated server, as it will save you money by ensuring that you can always connect to your website and will eliminate possible traffic problems, it will however cost you a higher monthly fee. If you have a large or growing business, a dedicated server is the only way to go.

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