Moving to a dedicated server – getting the timing right
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011A dedicated server is a very welcoming prospect to any beleaguered site owner. A server whose resources are entirely dedicated to your website requirements immediately makes a lot of concerns a thing of the past: For instance, the bandwidth and disk space constraints, both preventing you from really being able to “spread your wings” with the site, and so on.
However, moving over to a dedicated server should not be taken lightly. It’s a high-end solution, so the cost implications will probably require a business case. Furthermore, a dedicated server may simply be overkill, offering more facilities than the site in reality needs. Essentially, you need to get the timing right.
The best way forwards is to make a considered decision based on the evidence. If the site has recently branched out in to e-commerce and is now getting significant increased traffic, this could trigger a move. However, confirm your hunch by checking the site stats. Find out if the site traffic is putting a strain on your bandwidth threshold, suggesting you need a higher bandwidth allocation. Also, if multiple users are hitting a popular page simultaneously, you might ask if your server has sufficient memory and processor power to feed such multiple simultaneous requests.
Gathering the evidence from your site statistics, in this way, will help your case a lot. Meanwhile, here at EUKHost, an established web hosting, company, with a brilliant record of strong technical support, we will always be delighted to advise you on your decision.