by Ricardo d Argence

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.

Now suppose, all of a sudden, you got a job where you needed the automobile a lot more often. But you only had access to the car on certain days at certain times and the job would not wait. Because the car is just as much of your friends car as yours, they are also entitled to use it. You end up losing the job opportunity because you cannot use the car all of the time.

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.

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.

You work so hard trying to attract traffic to your website, it is a shame to throw that hard work out the window by not having enough bandwidth to accommodate all of your customers. This is the advantage of having a dedicated server, no longer do you have to share space or bandwidth with other businesses on the server. 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.

About the Author:
Founder and actual CEO, Ricardo d’Argence has been in the field for more than 20 years. Alojate.com is now one of the biggest web hosting providers in Mexico, offering a range of solutions for all business needs. Dedicated servers, SEO, factura electronica, web hosting & domain registration.

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