Differentiating Dedicated and Cloud Servers in India
Author: arunarawat | Posted: 27.03.2012Cloud servers in India had given a new horizon to the IT industry as a new approach to host websites more efficiently and quickly using multiple servers. Normally it becomes difficult to choose from various options of a thing as the best for you, may it be any daily use commodity for you or the options of web hosting which has confused the business establishments to choose from the varieties available in IT industry. Web hosting has been done through dedicated as well as shared server since long.
Business houses were in search of more potential option for hosting websites to enable them to access the required websites quickly and clearly, even at the busy hours on the network without experiencing a crash, and the concept of cloud servers has emerged to fulfill their needs. A comparative study of the features of dedicated servers and cloud servers can clear many of your doubts and will help in deciding for the best.
Features of both the servers
Dependability of servers: Cloud servers enjoys the freedom from any failures as they have multiple servers to download websites but as they are used by several users at a time the speed of cloud server gets slow at peak hours and user can not control it. Dedicated server, on the other hand, remains fully in user’s control.
Simplicity in using: You can not add or remove any server in case of dedicated servers but cloud servers in India allow you to do such changes to enable you to use web server more efficiently without making any changes in hardware of your system.
Scalability of server: The multiples servers provided by cloud server can be scaled down when not in use to enable other severs work effectively which is not possible with dedicated servers.
Need of additional OS or hardware: Cloud servers need no additional hardware or operating system for hosting websites even at the time of busy hours which makes them more comfortable to use unlike dedicated web servers.
Affordability: Cloud servers are affordable for even smaller establishments as they have not spend their savings in installing a dedicated server of their own which has fixed recurring expenses alongwith it. Cloud severs in India is charged at pay-per-use rate to make it more cost effective.
Thus, cloud servers in India can be assessed more beneficial for the business users, large as well as small, than dedicated servers in hosting websites.
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