The hosting industry tends to frame server choices as a binary: you either squeeze into the crowded affordability of shared hosting or you pay a premium for the dedicated power of an entire physical machine. But for the vast majority of growing websites, e-commerce stores, and we…
A regional bank in Ohio migrated its online banking portal from a Windows Server environment to Linux in late 2025, anticipating significant cost savings. The $18,000 they saved annually on licensing evaporated within three months when their .NET-based loan origination system — t…
The numbers looked great on paper. A bare-metal dedicated server for $79 per month with root access and unlimited configurations — what could possibly go wrong? Six months later, after a 3 AM outage that cost 14 hours of troubleshooting, a missed security patch that led to a comp…
In an era dominated by cloud computing, serverless architectures, and container orchestration, the dedicated server — a single physical machine reserved entirely for one customer — might seem like a relic from a bygone age of computing. Yet dedicated server hosting is not only su…