{"id":11,"date":"2006-11-14T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/dedicated-server-basics\/dedicated-servers-not-just-for-the-mission-critical\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T06:29:21","slug":"dedicated-servers-not-just-for-the-mission-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2006\/11\/dedicated-servers-not-just-for-the-mission-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated Servers: Not Just for the Mission Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not running a Fortune 500 conglomerate doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily mean a dedicated server is an overkill.<\/span><\/h1>\n

Mission critical: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a phrase you hear everywhere these days. But what is<\/em> mission critical, really? Simply stated, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any process or procedure that is crucial to the successful completion of an entire project.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Pretty broad definition, right? Well, to put it into everyday terms, certain bodily organs, like the heart, the kidneys, and the brain, are mission critical. If one of those organs fail, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it \u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u201c finito<\/em> \u00c2\u00ad\u00e2\u20ac\u201c game over.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly, for many companies, catastrophic server failures \u00e2\u20ac\u201c those that span hours, or even days \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are certainly detrimental, or in some cases fatal, to their missions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dedicated servers, for that very reason, are often behind the scenes of mission-critical websites. These website owners must avoid \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at all costs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the possibility of shared server neighbors crashing the machine.\u00c2\u00bcbr \/> <\/span><\/p>\n

Mission<\/span> Critical or Not\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Now, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s carry the analogy on one step further\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6While the heart is mission critical, the nose is not. So unless you are a food critic, your nose is not integral to your mission. But would you purposely choose to live without a nose just because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not mission critical?<\/span><\/p>\n

OK, so the analogy is a little stretched. But there is an important point in its midst: Dedicated servers are not just for mission-critical websites. Far from it, in fact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Retail giants, banks and the like are not the only ones that should consider rock-solid, safe and highly configurable servers. In other words, just because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not running a Fortune 500 conglomerate doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily mean a dedicated server is an overkill.<\/span><\/span> Even if your website doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t generate millions of dollars in revenue, why would you cut your nose off to spite your face with a shared server that could lead to significant downtime that hinders your traffic growth? Did I hear you say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cost???<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Technology: The Great Equalizer
\n<\/span><\/h1>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true that, in the past, the sheer cost of a dedicated server was a steep barrier to entry for anything other than mission-critical sites. One of the best things about technology, however, is that it tends to become ever more capable and far less expensive as time goes on.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where we stand in the dedicated server world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c prices have fallen to the point that it makes sense for even one-man \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or one-woman \u00e2\u20ac\u201c operations to use them, and the power of a modern server, even one with the lowliest specs, allows nearly anyone to compete with global mega-corporations.
\n<\/span>How\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that for equalization?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Counting the Costs
\n<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

But is that power worth the extra cost over a shared server? It is if you want the superior performance that a dedicated server gives you and your visitors. The Internet generation is an impatient lot \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how much business do you lose when your shared server\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clogged and sluggish? You can crank out spreadsheets until the sun burns out, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never really know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chances are good, however, that the business you forfeit would cover the cost of your own dedicated server if you are at all serious about the Internet as a medium for doing business. Not only that, but a dedicated server provides your visitor a responsive website that encourages them to hang around and explore. And visit again and again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shared servers<\/span><\/h4>\n

If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not critical to your mission, what is? Shared servers may not be ideal for every business – <\/span>if you are just playing with a blog or posting information online you may do well with a shared server –<\/span> but the point is that dedicated servers can play a role in the success of even non-mission critical sites. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to you to decide if that extra few dollars a month is worth the reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n

ServerPronto offers affordable and secure dedicated servers<\/a> and cloud<\/a> hosting service packages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not running a Fortune 500 conglomerate doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily mean a dedicated server is an overkill. Mission critical: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a phrase you hear everywhere these days. But what is mission critical, really? Simply stated, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any process or procedure that is crucial to the successful completion of an entire project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123,70,17,112,22,18],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dedicated-server-basics","tag-cloud","tag-data","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hosting","tag-server","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}