For an eCommerce business or a large or small business with a lot of online-based activities, upgrading from a VPS hosting plan to dedicated server hosting is an important consideration. The VPS plan offers significant advantages over a shared hosting plan, and the dedicated option offers a number of benefits over the VPS service.
It is important to recognize that a dedicated server hosting plan provides the business with a unique, exclusive physical server. The only difference in this type of plan and having your server at your location is the hosting company manages the physical aspects of the hardware. They may also offer managed dedicated server hosting as well, which provides additional support for server infrastructure and management.
No Hardware Issue Downtime
The best companies offering dedicated servers offer top uptime, which highly competitive SLAs and built-in redundancy factors to ensure extremely limited system disruption. With a well-established hosting company this means uninterrupted service around the clock and constant monitoring, management and upgrading of hardware throughout the terms of your service.
These companies also maintain the patches, downloads, and upgrades necessary to ensure the server is fully compliant with the latest in security.
Bandwidth and Scalability
With dedicated server hosting, you control the use of the bandwidth, and you have 100% access to all of the resources on the server. This also translates an optimal performance balancing of the server, without the demands of other users on the server resulting in any type of impact.
Customized Security
Security and protection of data are more important today than ever. By using a dedicated server, the user has full control over the security layers in use. For issues where credit card payments, sensitive or mission-critical data or for issues like HIPAA compliance, this is a vital consideration and a significant benefit.