Dedicated Servers: The Optimal Solution for Enterprise Applications

January 20, 2025 / Servers

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Enterprise applications, like ERP, CRM and supply chain management tools, play vital roles for businesses. Processing large amounts of important data and handling the workloads of many users, choosing the right hosting solution is crucial to ensure your apps run effectively and to minimise the potential for downtime, security risks or reduced productivity. In this post, we explain why dedicated servers are the ideal hosting solution for demanding enterprise applications.

Superior performance for demanding workloads

Given the amount of data they process, enterprise applications require substantial resources to function effectively and reliably. Dedicated servers are designed to handle these intensive workloads. Built using high-performance hardware and with dedicated resources, they ensure your data can be accessed and processed at speed. As a result, they can maintain uptime and performance during periods of high demand and run multiple applications while consistently processing large data sets.

In terms of use cases, dedicated servers are suitable for applications where performance is crucial to maintaining daily operations, like ERPs, large databases, analytics tools, CRM platforms, financial systems, collaboration tools and virtual desktops.

Is it time to upgrade? Read: How to tell if You Need a Dedicated Server for Your Web Hosting

Enhanced data security and compliance

The growing sophistication of cyberattacks and the consequences of falling victim to them means security is a major priority. One of the benefits of dedicated servers is that they operate in a single-tenancy environment that is isolated from other users. This ensures your data remains private and protected, significantly reducing the risks associated with multi-tenancy environments like shared hosting or the cloud.

While hosting providers implement robust security measures to protect all their client’s hosting solutions, the isolation of dedicated servers means you can tailor your security to meet your company’s compliance needs. Furthermore, you can take greater control by deploying your own firewalls, access controls, backup solutions and encryption to protect your sensitive information and comply with regulations like GDPR.

Greater control and customisation

Aside from performance and security, dedicated servers give you full control over your hosting environment. This flexibility enables your IT team to configure hardware and software in a way that best suits your needs, making dedicated servers ideal for running custom applications, managing unique workflows and providing greater oversight. For example, you can:

    • Implement your own security policies and protocols.
    • Configure performance settings to optimise resource usage.

  • Use your own tools to monitor server performance and system health.

For more information, read: Key Considerations When Choosing a Managed Dedicated Server

Comparison with other hosting options

There are three alternative hosting options besides dedicated servers: shared hosting, VPS and the cloud. Shared hosting should be ruled out immediately as a choice for enterprise applications as these solutions simply don’t offer the storage and resources required.

With regard to VPS and cloud hosting, there are two key differences compared to dedicated servers. Firstly, dedicated servers offer more powerful solutions than VPS and cloud packages in terms of the storage, CPU and RAM available. Secondly, while they do provide dedicated resources, VPS and cloud servers operate in multi-tenancy environments. These differences can impact choice in a number of ways:

  • Performance and reliability:Running on more powerful hardware, with greater resources and no possibility of resource competition, dedicated servers offer better performance when handling the most demanding workloads and are more reliable at maintaining performance during busy periods.It should be noted, however, that cloud hosting offers greater uptime (100% compared to 99.9%) and quicker and more cost-effective scaling than dedicated servers.
  • ControlDedicated servers, VPS and the cloud all offer full administrative access enabling you to configure your solutions to suit your business needs. However, when purchasing a dedicated server, you also have the option to create bespoke hardware specifications, for example, you can choose specific processors or storage types.
  • SecurityAs standard, dedicated servers offer an isolated environment that minimises the potential for vulnerabilities and helps improve compliance. This is possible with the cloud if you opt for a private cloud solution, but not with the public cloud where virtual servers are hosted across shared datacentre infrastructure. Multi-tenancy also occurs with VPS as multiple instances run on a single physical server.

For more information, read: Dedicated Server or Cloud Hosting – Choosing the Right Solution

Why choose Webhosting UK?

Featuring high-performance SSDs, Intel Xeon processors, 1 Gbit connections and 24/7 support, our managed dedicated server solutions are designed to ensure your enterprise applications run smoothly.

Here’s what sets us apart:

  • Customisable plans:Choose from a range of server specifications and configurations tailored to your unique business needs.
  • Fully managed support: We provide professional management, proactive server monitoring and round-the-clock expert support to handle any technical challenges.
  • Robust security: We protect your server and data with intrusion detection & prevention, automatic IP blocking, anti-malware and application firewall.
  • Reliable uptime guarantee: Our 99.9% uptime guarantee (backed by SLA) ensures that your applications remain accessible.
  • Enhanced performance:We optimise the server software to match your application and boost performance.

Conclusion

Dedicated servers are exceptionally powerful machines that offer businesses unmatched performance, control and security. This makes them ideal for storing sensitive data and running enterprise applications that have demanding workloads and require reliable, consistent performance.

For more information about Webhosting UK’s dedicated server solutions and server options, visit our Dedicated Server page or speak to our hosting experts.

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