There was a time when businesses were more contingent on dedicated servers for hosting their commercial websites. Perhaps, those who wished to have dynamic functionalities, compute resources, and stringent security provisions to keep their mission-critical data and applications out of harm's reach.

However, the rapid emergence of cloud technology completely changed the whole scenario of the hosting industry. More and more businesses are making a move towards cloud. It has undoubtedly out-shined this decades old hosting solution, that is, dedicated hosting. On a flip-side, would say that emergence of cloud server hosting has pushed businesses to ditch traditional hosting platform and get ready for cloud move.

 Industry pundits have predicted that in coming years cloud computing is expected completely conquest the realm of hosting because of its unsurpassed performance in tandem with on-demand resource allocation and pay as you use model.

Through this post, I would like to throw light on the most critical aspect that each business want to have- Which hosting provision, cloud server or dedicated server, will help them in achieving greater economies of scale?

Let's have closer look at some of the key highlights that will help you gain clear insight about these two technologies and take a right decision drive you achieving desired business value proposition:

 Dedicated Server Hosting: There are definitely numerous of benefits attached to the dedicated servers. Foremost one is that the end user is allocated with a single server that is solely committed to cater to their requirements. Simply put, complete server is at the disposal of one single user. The security protocols can be defined and integrated seamlessly according to the growing business demand.  However, the greatest operational efficiency can be achieved via dedicated sever only when the server is performing at its maximum capacity. In fact, there are chances that there is under-utilization of resources during the off-season period (that is when there is low traffic inflow).

Additionally, in case of unexpected traffic spike you may have to add on auxiliary resources, such as RAM, bandwidth, processing power, which irrefutably requires huge upfront investment.

Cloud Server Hosting: Unlike dedicated hosting, cloud server hosting delivers on-demand resource provisioning solutions to the end users. Simply put, they get complete access to the resources as and when needed.  Besides, they only have to pay for the resources they have consumed (here would say that pay as you use model is just similar to your electricity utility bills). Furthermore, the far-reaching capacity to make use of shared resources do completely slashes down overall IT infrastructure setup and up-gradation costs.

In a nutshell, the leading parameter that is alluring entrepreneurs toward making a quick cloud move is greater economies of scale. Shift gears to cloud and eventually increase your overall business ROI.

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