A dedicated server, as the name suggests is dedicated to a single user for a single cause, may be only for hosting websites. The user is the sole owner of all resources of the server. The owner has the full liberty to configure the hosting environment of a dedicated server, as per his/her business requirements.
Dedicated servers are useful for hosting of those business websites which has a very heavy influx of website visitor’s traffic, about 1000 to 2000 visitors per day. One must have a
managed dedicated server hosting or he/she will have to maintain a technical team to manage the server.
A Virtual Private Server hosting is virtualising partitions in a physical machine, each partition equipped with complete hosting resources, serving as an independent host to a client. Thus, a VPS is serving multiple customers on a single physical server machine.
A VPS is a hybrid between a dedicated server hosting and shared hosting service. A VPS provides root access to its clients to have full control over the server and capability to customize it as per their requirements. A VPS provides dedicated hosting with shared resources to its clients.
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VPS hosting is quite economical in comparison to a dedicated server hosting. A VPS can cater to the
web server needs of those businesses those do not have a very heavy traffic of web site visitors.