Imagine you wanted an automobile and you could not pay for it, so you decided to go in with four friends and everyone would own a piece of the automobile. While it was cheaper everyone had to share a car. A schedule would be worked out and everyone would abide by the schedule of when they could use the car.

Now imagine that, at a moment's notice, you were assigned a position that required you to use the car more frequently. However you just had access to the vehicle on limited days at limited times, and the position couldn't wait. Because the car is just as much of your friends car as yours, they are also entitled to use it. In the end, you don't get the position because you aren't able to make use of the car whenever you need it.

The lines above are pretty much the same as a business choosing between using a dedicated or a shared server. A dedicated server is one that sevices your business only.

If your business is small, you can get by with a shared server, but if you have a very large or blossoming business, then you would find a shared server to be just as distressful as the car analogy that we gave earlier in this writing. Servers have just a set bandwidth amount, which permits just a limited quantity of traffic to enter in a given period of time.

You can compare bandwidth with a toll booth. The toll booth allows a certain amount of traffic through at a time on a scheduled basis. Everything turns out okay, until the time that everyone chooses the toll road when they determine they should leave town, all going at the same time. Then it becomes a disaster as people wait for hours to get through the toll booth.

Even if you are the only one in town, customers will not deal with insufficient bandwidth for a longer period. You must be careful, because if they try your website and can not use it, they will never return.

After you get customers to your website, the risk of them being turned away because your shared server does not provide enough bandwidth is not worth it. No longer do you have to share space or bandwidth with other bussiness on the server, that this is the main advantage of having a dedicated server. The server is dedicated only to your business, enabling traffic to flow quickly and smoothly.

You may find that it is more wise to invest in a dedicated server, as it will save you money by ensuring that you can always connect to your website and will eliminate possible traffic problems, it will however cost you a higher monthly fee. If you have a large or growing business, a dedicated server is the only way to go.