{"id":1038,"date":"2015-08-18T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2018-07-13T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T18:11:47","slug":"the-benefits-of-a-dedicated-server-over-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2015\/08\/the-benefits-of-a-dedicated-server-over-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Dedicated Servers over Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your company has finally gotten to the point where a typical server just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cut it anymore. Ideally, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve yet to run into any problems, but you know they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to happen sooner rather than later if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t move quickly. Although most companies would immediately go with a dedicated server, perhaps you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking about going with the cloud instead. In recent years, the cloud has been added to just about every digital service out there. While it certainly carries a number of benefits with it, when it comes to servers, there are still plenty of reasons to opt for the traditional dedicated type.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>Dedicated Servers vs Cloud<\/h1>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/cloud\">cloud servers<\/a> are often heralded as being the most cost-effective option, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tough to argue that they rival most dedicated servers.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this is because<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/dedicated\"> dedicated servers<\/a> still offer better performance across the board. This is especially true where disk IO (Input\/Output) is concerned. In fact, most cloud servers still offer shared services. It may still be superior to traditional versions, but not better than a dedicated server. This in terms of having your own resources. Lastly, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t confuse more storage with faster storage. Cloud servers offer the former, not the latter\u00e2\u20ac\u201d a key distinction.<\/p>\n<h2>Transparency<\/h2>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>Another place dedicated servers are generally superior is transparency. This may not seem like a big deal now, but wait until you have some bug or other issue interfering with your server\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance. Again, as a shared service, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect much transparency, at least not the kind that will do you any good. You might discover another user is causing a bottleneck, but so what? There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing you can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>Though it may seem counterintuitive, dedicated servers are actually far more redundant than their cloud counterparts. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a misconception that cloud servers must be the most redundant because they lack hardware. This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 100% true though. Clouds still rely on nodes, for example, and they can be even more fragile in this environment. Furthermore, trying to inject your cloud server with redundancy will take a lot of work and require someone with an advanced level of understanding about servers.<\/p>\n<p>Though the cloud certainly has its advantages, most of the time, dedicated servers are still the way to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\">ServerPronto<\/a> offers the best affordable and secure hosting service in all dedicated server packages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-blog-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rackaid.com\/blog\/dedicated-cloud-hosting\/\">7 Reasons Why You Should Use Dedicated Over Cloud Hosting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: Flickr \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kim_scarborough\/\">Kim Scarborough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your company has finally gotten to the point where a typical server just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cut it anymore. Ideally, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve yet to run into any problems, but you know they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to happen sooner rather than later if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t move quickly. Although most companies would immediately go with a dedicated server, perhaps you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re thinking about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,120],"tags":[123,273,112,22,18],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","category-cloud-hosting","category-dedicated-server-2","tag-cloud","tag-dedicated-servers","tag-hosting","tag-server","tag-web-hosting","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}