published by Vekseid on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 07:28
Although it might not seem obvious at first, moving to a dedicated server for most sites actually involves a reduction in peak capacity. Quality web hosts usually host their sites on high-end servers - eight or more cores, triply mirrored RAID 10 arrays, and high quality monitoring, redundant power supplies and so on. Your first dedicated server is hardly going to be so lavish - you are paying for consistency and freedom. Thus, it can make sense to stick with virtual private servers (VPSes) and high end shared hosting for a time.
