VPS vs Dedicated Server | Performance and Price Revealed 

I need to note based on several comments. The cost isn't for the hardware... It is for the dedicated 10 gbs connection. If you chop this down to a 1 gbs connection the price drops from around 2000 to 600. Also, this is for big business and not your average server. You need to have a specific need for that kind of throughput. Most don't need that kind of power.

Thanks for the informative video. I love your shirt!! Where did you get that??

Thanks. Very informative. One thing I would add is that if you have a virtual server hosting your website, your website-associated email server may be shared with others. That means that if there are a bunch of spammers on your virtual server, your outgoing emails will not get through to your contacts. With a dedicated server, your email reputation is your own.

Dedixaded isn't needed until your domains go over a million hits/day resources wise. Having control on the box is an old way of thinking. Now with VPS, we're way more free & modular to manage our websites... and grossly a 1/10 of the monthly price. My 2 cents.

What would be the best option to relocate a call center that is currently located overseas working with a client where every single agent computer need to be shown as US based station. My main concern, would it be possible for me to have a server a dedicated server and have all of them connect to it or is there another options so my overseas agents to work in the virtual computer in the US where they going to be receiving and making calls and installing software and so on?

The advantage of VPS with regards to downtime isn't really related to the uptime agreed in SLA, but rather because of the cheaper cost and more flexible instance sizes, you can afford to rent larger number of smaller VPSes and configure them in high availability setup (e.g. automatic fail over, continuous database replication, cluster storage system, multiple availability zone). Most high availability cluster systems will require that you have an odd number of masters, which means that you'll need to rent at least three machines to have proper HA system. If you absolutely need HA system, but your data throughput is actually fairly modest, VPS is going to be signficantly more cost effective than running dedicated servers. The smaller instances also means that it's easier to gradually add capacity than with dedicated servers, as you don't have to pay for unused capacity because the smallest dedicated server that your provider has is a 128-core beast. If you have a high availability setup, the SLA of individual instances becomes much less important. Though you'll need to make sure that your VPS provider allows you to configure anti affinity to ensure that your multiple VPSes are actually going to run on separate hardware.

Which one would allow me to keep an application running while your computer sleep?

Excellent video and very helpful. Please do more videos like this.

I made chrome extension for lock down chrome... Can you show in your video... I am asking for how to lock chrome in Ubuntu? in past month but no one is answering me so I made that...(if you have any other option then plz tell) I know there are tons of extension are present for doing same thing my mine is better....

Anyone knows if VPS are ok for small to medium size Magento2 websites? Or is there better solution beside dedicated sever, obviously. THanks for video Chris!

is it always necessary to use that matrix kind of video all the time when someone explains something tech ?

30 a month? I thought you had the 1 dollar a month Google site per the other video?

Comparison videos 101 - when showing benchmarks between two items/services, show them side by side on the screen. Thanks

the shirt amuses me, I hope the IT guy that replaces me tries it out...

Thank you, Chris. Useful and well presented.

even in shared cpu environments on quality providers you can get guaranteed IOPS /cpu/memory in places like Azure. upgrade is also faster on VPS. you just shot down and redeploy. scaling out and up are easy on vps web sites.

Having dedicated network connection does not necessarily mean that you always have full bandwidth during peak periods. If your dedicated hardware providers or the data center that hosted your dedicated server oversubscribed their uplink connection or their physical network, you can still see drops during peak periods. Even if those parties don't do that, the local internet exchange, tier 1 network provider could be over loaded as well.

I agree with all what you said, but everytime I heard you talking about prices I said to myself "he never heared about OVH I guess" but I realized they only offer North America servers. The prices you're talking about are still crazy to me.

Thanks mate.

I love the shirt saying "sudo apt remove sudo" 😂😂

I do have to say that I use Hetzner as a VPS for my Plex but when I run the sysbench command on my VPS I had almost exact numbers as you did on dedicated hardware. I did the same on my Ubuntu VM and it was only a milisecond faster. Perhaps Hetzner does their VPS better? Also I do have to mention that I have atleast 500 Mbit/s upload and download

Hi Chris, I have a question. Is a motherboard BIOS possible to cause issues on games? I can't launch Resident Evil 2 since I've switched to Ryzen7 3700X + X470 motherboard.

Is that the matrix running in the background?

VPS can perform like dedi, if is alone on the host. Or might not perform at all if is oversold on crowded host Thank you for coming to my TEDx talk.

Ah, Linode, DigitalOcean, Vultr, many others. I would love to see VDS compared to VPS as well. Seems like a worthwhile mid-point. Whoa. $2000/mo. For that price I would buy my own hefty rack unit and co-locate it some place and save money by no more than 18 months out.

*Once again this advise is like pure GOLD 😊😊😊* 👏👏👏👏 👍👍👍👍

Dear sir. Can I ask? If we want to have the lms using moodle for example, what do you recommend? VPS or dedicated server? And if dedicated server is the best, what the best spec. Thanks in advance

I’ve just migrated my website from a dedicated server with a hdd to a VPS with SSD and my website is significantly faster so far and i pay a 1/5th of the price i used to pay.

Chris who is your VPS provider, I am looking to switch my VPS provider and I would love to know who you use because Vultr is down more than it's up and I need to have a reliable VPS. Just like you I can't afford to use a dedicated server. The big reason I ask who your VPS provider is because you said they could co-locate your server, this is huge for me and the other question I have is latency if you did a ping to your server what would your ping be. Right now I have 35 ms as my normal ping with my VPS through Vultr which is a huge reason as to why I remain with them even though they are down frequently because when they are up they work wonderful.

There is a huge difference between cheap shared resources and dedicated resources cloud servers. On google cloud platform you can create virtual machines with almost 4TB of ram and 160 vCPUs. I'm sure there are use cases for rented dedicated machines but you can do so much more with AWS/GCP/Azure like automatic scaling of resources based on traffic/load.

Darn... so much choises to make... wish it was as simple as a stand alone or NAS

Thank you for this video

Nothing like having your own iron in a rack somewhere. I belonged to a couple of non-profit colocation projects about 20 years ago that sought to provide free colocation space for 501(c)3 charitable organizations and private individuals, supported by the donations of people who either supported charities or could afford to kick in a bit more than the minimum cost to colocate a machine. At ~$50 per RU it was dirt cheap for access to facilities like Hurricane Electric, with what was then a screaming Gigabit backbone connection. Too bad it was mismanaged and fell apart.

What is a VPS?

LOL. For the price Data Packet charges I can buy a server and colocate it at One Wilshire.

Thoughts on linode?

you chose a hella expensive dedicated provider... i have dual xeon octocore dedicated boxes.. 32gb ram.. 2x1tb ssd in hardware raid1... 1Gb real dedicated un-shared node.. /29 ipv4 included plus i add a /27 block of ipv4 on them.... 20Tb bandwidth... and i run ESXi on them... i pay $105/mo each.. granted, they aren't the newest.. and your example has a pipe that charlie sheen would be envious of... but for most sites... thats way overkill... mine only host a handful of sites each... each client gets dedicated resources ... and they never come close to saturation.. shop around... deals to be had.. dont bend over for the crooks

10:45 441MB/s O_O that's faster than my local hard drive

I'm surprised at how much you're spending on a shared server, Chris. I think I've only ever had dedicated servers, always as a media server. I think the most expensive dedicated server I paid for was about 20 euro. I'm in the US, so that varied from sometimes about 15 bucks up to maybe 22. www.kimsufi.com/us/en/index.xml You could have yourself a dedicated i5 server with 2TB or more storage for about 20 euro. If I were to pay for a shared server, I can't see justifying spending as much as I would for a dedicated one.

I'd like to see if it's possible to host a server like that on my own.

Everything was perfect until the $2000

VPS provide root access ?

$2000 a month?

For network test I'd suggest to use wget -O /dev/null .. In Windows that can be done with win32/64 binary of wget and wget -O NUL ..

Now I understand what shared and dedicated means

Is this server suitable for forex market domination?

sudo can not remove itself

This I can’t deal with, if you’re gonna show us something then get straight to the point because it’s irritating

wait people think they are equal

what the hell is that tshirt 😂😂

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your shirt hurts my head....

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