The advantages of a dedicated server can best be described by the following analogy:
Suppose you wanted an automobile. You could not afford to buy one for yourself, so you decided to go in with four friends and everyone would own a piece of the automobile. This meant that although it was cheaper for everyone, they all had to share the car. A schedule would be worked out and everyone would abide by the schedule of when they could use the car.
Now suppose, all of a sudden, you got a job where you needed the automobile a lot more often. But you only had access to the car on certain days at certain times and the job would not wait. Because the car is just as much of your friends car as yours, they are also entitled to use it. You end up losing the job opportunity because you cannot use the car all of the time.
The above is similar to the difference between a business using a dedicated server and a shared server. A dedicated server, just as the name implies, is “dedicated” to serving only your business. This means that you do not have to share space and bandwidth with other online business websites.
While a small business or personal website...