Private cloud or dedicated server: what’s best for you?

Private cloud and dedicated servers are often mistakenly combined as one product, this is primarily because they both offer a complete server environment at a surface level. To the average server administrator, the differences are barely noticeable. For day-to-day operations, both can run the same software, utilise the same tools and if you’re used to using one system then you’ll seamlessly be able to switch to the other.  

Once you begin to strip it back and look at the inner workings for each, the real differences begin to shine. Neither solution is better outright than the other, instead they fit into their own respective niches. This is the important distinction businesses need to be aware of when looking to deploy either within their organisation. 

For decades now,…