So I have a social media exchange site, it's been starting to get more popular and it's taking up a great deal of bandwith. Right now I have shared hosting and i don't want to get my account throttled and slow down the load speed of the site. So, I was wondering what is the best option for me in terms of getting a VPS or a Dedicated or anything else if I want it to handle a really large amount of bandwith.
How much bandwidth your website require each month? can you give statistics of last month for example?
What type of software are you using? Regardless, if you go for a VPS or dedicated, you will need to know how to administer a server or pay for management, if not you will be wasting money. If you're not running into problems, don't worry about it, 6GB isn't much, but this depends on the type of site you run and whether its resource intensive. You can always migrate to a VPS when the time comes, and scale up from there, since a VPS is usually cheaper than a dedicated server, and in some cases can out perform a dedicated server.
How much your budget ? If you have big project and if you are serious player in social media ,I will strongly recommend you to go with dedicated servers rather than VPS .In VPS also ,your CPU speed is shared ,so it will be just same as shared (in low budget) !.
See : Shared Hosting : This is for starting sites , as they use server resources and bandwidth . VPS : It gives you a option to get a part of the Machine , in addition use proper ram , (for server resources usage) ; also it gives you premium bandwidth for your site . This is for normal sites which gets good visits and hits . Dedicated base : A base for you . You use full ram and get full server resources , costly and should only be tempted if u have a good site web count. This is for pure website and costs chucks of money . Other than this there is also clowd servers .... Now choose.
"Premium" bandwidth has nothing to do with whether you get a shared, VPS, or dedicated server. You can get bad or good bandwidth on either of these. Clowd? I'm sure you mean Cloud servers. Cloud servers are usually a mixture of VPS and dedicated server technologies. This is inaccurate, in some cases VPS servers will outperform dedicated servers. I don't think you understand how virtualization works. With a VPS you are allocated resources, meaning you are guaranteed CPU/RAM/HDD resources. Yes, you share a CPU, but you are dedicated CPU units, CPU percentage and CPU cores.
Maybe, maybe not. There is nothing to stop providers from overselling the CPU, and in fact, I'd say the majority do. On a 8 core system (dual 5620's, for example) with just 16GB of RAM (which is quite low for a VPS server), only those people with 2GB of RAM could actually be guaranteed a dedicated core without overselling the CPU. Yet you regularly see providers "guaranteeing" 2, 3, 4 cores or more on 512mb plans, 1GB plans, etc.
I would recommend you start off with a VPS and grow from their stradily. Since VPS are logical in nature and is a type of cloud offering you will always have the opportunity to expand on an on-demand basis. Dedicated Servers are recommended for the big boys, however, if you can afford and think your traffic will be far much more, dedicated server is the ideal choice. Typically, a standard Xeon processor with 2-3ghz of processing power, 4 GB of RAM can handle up to 15,000-20,000 users simultaneously ( These figures are average for standard application and may vary from cases to case). The data flow depends upon the network connectivity you have with the plan and it doesn't directly relate server either you have VPS or Dedicated. I hope it is helpful.
I'm not getting into misleading webhosts, if you want to get into that game, you can oversell anything, so no matter whether you go with shared/vps/dedicated, you can oversell bandwidth, or even overuse the hardware.
Thanks for ANSWERING ! same answer @djacobs. In VPS ,most of the VPS providers not able to provide guaranteed CPU as they claimed at the time of order .
I dont know what VPS providers you have "tested" your theory with, but to be fair most customers don't know how to gauge how much CPU power they are allocated/using. So I would be hesitant to take word from other customers who told you this, if any.
In short : Dedicated for Large website with high bandwidth usage + resource usage VPS for Medium website with high bandwidth usage Shared for Small website with less bandwidth usage
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