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There is a misconception about Dedicated Server and Cloud Server. We still see the need for a dedicated server for many organizations but they have inclined towards cloud and landed in paying more unnecessarily. We hope this article will our views and sort out their misconception.

A dedicated server is a physical server that is purchased or rented entirely for your own business needs, making it a great solution for large businesses, those that for regulatory reasons require exceptionally high levels of data security or organizations that have predictable demand necessitating all of their servers running 24/7/365. No scalability is the major concerns by business owners but this can be manageable. A dedicated server is found very useful where the business application requires high performance. This is the option suitable for application which is made for the internal purpose.

Whereas, Cloud Server is based on the most innovative Cloud computing technologies that allow an unlimited number of machines to act as one system. In simplest terms, Cloud hosting is a technique where two and more computers are connected to a system

With Cloud servers, you only ever pay for the exact amount of server space used, on an hourly basis, and have the benefit of infinite flexibility. You can scale up or down resources and server specification depending on demand, meaning that you can avoid paying for idle infrastructure costs when demand is low. A cloud server is a boon for the businesses where network traffic is uncertain especially market segment like media, online shopping portals.

But with a cloud, you share resources with others. This includes disk, RAM, CPU, and network and this is where performance is unpredictable. This is especially true when it comes to disk IO. With most cloud systems, the network and underlying storage are shared among customers. This can cause disk I/O to be unpredictable.  If another customer starts to send large amounts of write requests to the storage array, you may see slowdowns. The upstream network is shared so you can experience bottlenecks there too.

Hardware errors are another issue. We have suspected hardware issues on a computing instance, there was no way for us to confirm our suspicions. We simply migrate the instance to another physical node to see if the problem persists. Though cloud makes these migrations easy, a dedicated server may make these migrations unnecessary. With a dedicated system, we can easily check the hardware and rule out issues. This allows us to focus diagnostic efforts on the right problems.

Transparency, meanwhile, is especially critical during an outage. Cloud providers are typically unwilling to specify the exact cause of downtime or the steps taken to fix the issue, so enterprises are flying blind in the event of an outage. With a dedicated server, internal IT can go hands-on and prevent issues from reoccurring.

Cloud infrastructure, especially with AWS, adds layers of complexity that you may not need. With AWS, your IP addresses are not automatically bound to any specific EC2 instance. If you stop and start that instance, you must remember to re-associate your IP address. Similarly, the EBS storage can be terminated by an error. AWS offers various tools to help keep you from making mistakes, but you have to enable them.

Finding direct cost comparisons between cloud and dedicated is difficult. Sometimes, you may want to over-deploy your cloud infrastructure to solve some performance issues.

The cloud is a powerful technology, but it isn’t the complete answer for every business and every workload. You need the ability to use the cloud for applications where it’s best suited, and run dedicated hardware where needs require.

There is much debate as to the value of dedicated servers in the new world of Cloud, the reality is that dedicated server still requires where ever there is a heavy application which requires high performance and high I/O. According to a Microsoft study, dedicated servers account for 48 percent of hosted infrastructure spending and will continue to top 40 percent over the next two years; in other words, dedicated hosting is still essential to the enterprise.

IoT Managed Services are a boon to combat lack of expertise in evaluating system failure, 

keeping all the components together. With pointed attention towards faultless data streaming in the IoT 

landscape, we bestow deep diagnosis across every layer and monitor the behaviour of every asset connected. 

Ultimately, we tend to thrive for a highly optimized IoT infrastructure and therefore the overall tuned performance.