Dedicated server has many advantages over a shared server. If you are hosting your website in a shared server, it is ok in the initial period of your online business development. But if your business is growing and your website is attracting more traffic means, it is time to switch over to a dedicated server.

A simple illustration will explain the importance and advantage of a dedicated server. Suppose you share a four room apartment with three other friends. You are entitled to use one room only as the other three friends share a room each.

It is cheaper for everyone whether you all four are owning the apartment or taken for rent, but all have to share the apartment. Moreover one can't use the other three rooms freely. A mutual understanding should be reached so that no one disturbs the other three shareholders. You are only a part owner and your freedom of use is limited.

Suppose you want to accommodate one of your family members or your friend. But you only have access to one room and you have to take the permission of others as it may be a disturbance to them to have one more person in their apartment. If you want to accommodate more persons, you can't do it as there is a practical difficulty of space constraint. If you are the only owner of the apartment you can bring in more people.

In the above case think of the situation if your friends are discarding you as you could not accommodate them. It will be terrific loss to you. The above is similar to the difference between a business using a dedicated server and a shared server. Just as you lose your friends, you will lose your website traffic as the shared server can't accommodate all the traffic at the same time.

The dedicated server, as the name implies, is dedicated to serve your business only. You do not have to share the space and bandwidth with so many other websites as in the case of shared server.

A personal website or a small business website in its initial developmental stage can do well with a shared server, but a growing business site will face the disaster as in the illustration explained above. Every server has a certain bandwidth and a certain amount of traffic alone can pass through it at a certain time.

The bandwidth can be compared to the actual traffic on a road. Suppose your city has only one link road or bridge to cross a river to go to the other side and every body has to cross the bridge to reach to their office, school and other places.

The bridge can allow a certain amount of traffic at a time. This works out well unless everyone decided to cross the bridge at the same time. If that happens it will be a disaster as people have to wait their turn to cross the bridge. To avoid traffic rush many cities around the world practice staggering time for offices and schools.

In the physical world people will wait for their turn to cross the bridge. But in the world wide web, people won't wait to access your website. If they cannot access your website, they will move on never to return again.

The bridge is the server linking your website and the traffic volume it can accommodate at a time is your bandwidth. Suppose your office is the only place on the other side of the bridge, the bridge can be easily accessible for the people visiting your office and they don't have to wait.

Website traffic is the backbone of your business. No traffic means no sales and no profit. The major part of web development is the generation of traffic. All your hard work in generating traffic will be of no use unless you  have enough bandwidth to allow all the traffic that comes to your site.

A dedicated server solves this problem as it is meant for you only and you need not share the bandwidth with other websites, allowing a free flow of traffic.

The monthly rental of a dedicated server may be on a higher side when compared to a shared server. But the profit you can generate through a large volume of traffic will make it a negligible amount. Losing valuable customers because of inadequate bandwidth will kill your business.

The monthly rental of a dedicated server has no value when compared to the sales and profits you can generate through a huge volume of traffic. Paying for a dedicated server is the wise thing than losing customers.

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