For businesses to be successful in its operations, it needs support from a variety of computing workloads. These workloads demand a lot of resources. When it comes to web hosting back in the days, standard hosting servers were enough to grant all resources demanded by the business website’s workload. That’s the reason for the rapid growth of the dedicated servers Dubai industry. Dedicated servers were enough to meet resource demands of business workloads then. 

But today, the growth scale and potential of businesses are so huge that their resource demands can’t be met by dedicated servers. Of course, the organization can invest in a lot of hardware to cover the resource demands of their workloads. But they won’t find it economical as such an approach wouldn’t be able to keep up with business growth or shrinkage. 

While businesses struggled with few options to solve this dilemma, private cloud came into the picture. After that, we saw cloud hosting UAE take over as the most dominant industry in the web hosting domain of the Middle East. 

In this article, we will see how private cloud ties in with the evolution of dedicated servers. 

The Evolution of Dedicated Servers

Many businesses see private cloud as an evolution of public cloud. On the contrary, it is not wrong to say that private cloud is actually an evolution of dedicated servers. 

Dedicated servers became popular owing to the demand for root access, dedicated static IP addresses, and dedicated resource pools. Back in the days, shared servers couldn’t meet such demands. The only option then, even for businesses with smaller workloads, was dedicated servers. VPS servers presented a solution some time later, which subsequently led to the rise of the VPS hosting UAE industry. But the growth wasn’t for long as the cloud followed. 

Meanwhile, many of those companies that had relied on dedicated servers had multiple workloads they had to run. Since dedicated servers were the only option then, they ran all instances of workloads in their own respective dedicated servers. Performance issues and storage bottlenecks started to increase and security concerns began to rise. Then the only solution was to purchase multiple dedicated servers though this significantly increased the business’ expenses. 

Cloud came with the answer to all these problems. But at the beginning, it still wasn’t an economical option compared to purchasing multiple dedicated servers. But eventually cloud service providers became capable of streamlining conventional server configurations so each of the many workloads receives optimal amount of resources. Such an environment also makes it possible for System/DevOps administrators to automate provisioning across their servers based on a specified criteria. 

This is what dedicated servers have evolved into. The dedicated private cloud can take dedicated server environments and distribute it as virtual machines (VM) that can handle workloads efficiently and effectively. This means there won’t be overhead or per VM licensing costs. With such an ability, business will have the flexibility to grow and shrink in seconds at lower operational costs. Better organization of workloads and proper utilization of resources are added benefits.