When is the right time to migrate your website, e-commerce or application to a Dedicated Server? And why do it?
Many users fail to recognize when their project (website, blog, portal, e-commerce) needs higher performance or a better solution to increase and improve the customer experience.
The Shared Web Hosting ( Linux Web Hosting , Web Hosting Windows or Web Hosting Plesk ) is an excellent solution with which to begin to approach the web but if you aspire to growth will soon come a time when you will have to think of a more efficient solution.
When you find a shared Web Hosting limiting you will most likely have to make a different choice and switch to a dedicated solution that guarantees you resources and performance 24/7.
When is the time to upgrade to a Dedicated Server?
Each project has a story of its own, it is not possible to determine a fixed number of visits or a quantity of page views per day to understand if it is the right time to make this choice. However, there are several factors that can be considered to understand at what stage our project is and if we are satisfying our visitors / customers in the best way or if we can do better.
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Slow loading of web pages
We tend to underestimate this aspect which has become increasingly important also for positioning on search engines, a slow website makes the visitor nervous and therefore there is a risk that he will go elsewhere. Sometimes a slow loading is not due to the hosting service but to code errors or bugs in the applications (joomla plugin, wordpress, etc.). If this were not the case, this is precisely the first indicator that should make us think of finding a more suitable solution.
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Traffic (visits / page views) is increasing
Do your website statistics speak for themselves? Are you increasing visitors every day and is your website really starting to work? Do not wait until it is too late and do not stay on a shared plan, once they are on a server visitors will be served faster and your website will grow even more.
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Does the project you are managing begin to need specific technical characteristics?
All Shared Hosting plans are specifically designed to ensure the best possible compatibility with applications on the market, but by doing this you will never be able to obtain extreme optimization since some choices / configurations are to be considered exclusive for certain applications used (magento, prestashop etc. ). Consequently, if you really want your application to be highly optimized, the only way to go is that of a Cloud Server or a Dedicated Server configured ad hoc for what you are using.
What are the advantages of migrating my project to a Dedicated Server?
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Complete control of everything that happens on your Server
Being the sole owner of a Server is an invaluable advantage, your application will be the only one to reside inside the machine and consequently it will be easier to understand what works correctly and what creates slowdowns. Thanks to a series of tools it is possible to meticulously control all the resources used and understand where the bottlenecks are generated so as to be able to improve the user experience more and more ensuring a fluid loading of the portal.
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Increase security
As we said earlier, it is possible to optimize any aspect related to the server configuration and one of these aspects is security. It will be possible to manage a data backup in a better and more frequent way, thus ensuring faster recovery in case of need. The operating system and security updates can be made more frequently and you can choose any version of your favorite applications (Php, MySQL, etc.).
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Increase the speed of your site
This is also a fundamental concept that is worth pointing out. By switching to a Dedicated Server you can enjoy the latest storage technologies on the market such as SSD disks that guarantee better speed without even having to change the standard system configuration. In addition to the hardware, it will be possible to install and configure advanced and customized caching systems based on the application used (Apc, Memcache, Varnish, etc.).
Our Dedicated Servers are updated with the most reliable hardware components every six months and guarantee you the best performance for your application. You can buy them month by month without constraints, thus having the opportunity to try on the field what we have described. Even the management has been simplified in fact as well as being already configured to host what you want, they can be equipped with a Hosting Automation control panel (Plesk, Cpanel, Webmin) that will help you manage every feature.
