Why have a dedicated server?

1. Use the Hosting for Websites

By far the most popular use of a dedicated server is to use it for hosting websites. A dedicated server is necessary if you have a large intensive website and millions of website visitors each week.

I started with shared hosting for my website but quickly realized to get the full potential from the site I needed to pay for a dedicated server.

I will briefly describe the difference between shared and dedicated hosting.

With shared hosting, as the name suggests, you share the hosting with others. This means the bandwidth and disk space on the server is restricted. Go over the shared resources and the website is limited.

This can be disastrous. If your website is limited, visitors cannot get to the site. No visitors mean no sales.  With dedicated hosting, this is not an issue as your site is the only one on that server.

This there is no sharing of bandwidth and neither the disk space. There is a lot of space for your brand and site to grow online.

2. Use It for Backup

Speaking of large websites one of the ways in which I find a dedicated server useful is as back-up for my website.

Building up a successful business website takes a huge amount of time and money. There is nothing worse than finally reaping success with a website attracting thousands of visitors per day only to find the website goes down.

In some cases, the website might be hacked. It may become impossible to get it back up and running again. It is possible to lose not only the site but also all customers and income. It is possible to work around this scenario by making regular back-ups of the website. The ideal place to do so is on a dedicated server. I recommend making a backup of any website and this is high on my list of things to do with a dedicated server.

3. Use It for a Minecraft Server

Those who love playing multi-player games such as Minecraft, choose to use a dedicated server to use it for a Minecraft server.

While a dedicated server does come with a cost per month, a group of friends might want to share the cost to have their own Minecraft server to host their own game.

There are benefits to hosting games this way. For one there is minimal downtime in the game. Another is that a dedicated server offers optimal speed.

It is not as difficult to set up a dedicated server for Minecraft as one might think. In fact, I have written a guide to do so that anyone can follow.

4. Host a Personal Cloud Space

When I was considering the question of what to do with a dedicated server, a personal cloud space comes to mind.

The cloud has fast become the ultimate way to save and access data. The biggest benefit is that anything can be stored in the cloud, this includes:

• Documents
• Photographs
• Videos
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• E-mails and chat transcripts
• Calendars

Any business could benefit by offering employees access to a private cloud space. This is possible by paying for hosting on a dedicated server.

Project management through the cloud is a very good idea. This includes giving staff access to all of the above. What is even better about the cloud is that they have access to it through a variety of ways, the computers, smartphones, and tablets, both in and out of the office.

There are numerous project management tools available with some giving the option for data sync. Simply sign for dedicated server hosting and install the software of your choice and you have your own company cloud.