27th May 2024

What’s the difference between a dedicated server and a virtual private server?

A dedicated server and a virtual private server (VPS) are two types of website hosting solutions. In dedicated hosting, you can rent an entire physical server to host your website. The web hosting provider gives you exclusive access to the entire physical server. However, this solution is expensive and often unnecessary for most organizations. Because of hardware advancements, a physical server has the computing capacity to do much more than host a single website. Instead of overprovisioning resources, you can use a VPS that provides a dedicated environment more cost-effectively. It’s called virtual because it consumes only a portion of the server’s […]