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Originally Posted by Kolargol
right... why did I think I would get the anwser on GFY. I will go with "would you hit it?" thread next time.
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What you get out of a good cloud server is redundancy. Your data is shared on high end shared storage. If one drive fails you will not lose your data. It is also on virtualization software. So if the physical server you are hosted on fails, your virtual machine can be moved to another physical machine. Your virtual machine is hosted on the shared storage so it doesn't matter where it boots from. Over time it will probably cost more money, and you will most likely want to have a backup server with another cloud provider. Maybe not running, but atleast replicated to it, so if there is an issue with the first provider, you can easily start up another server elsewhere.
With the dedicated server you have multiple single points of failure. Your entire server is a single point of failure. You can have multiple hard drives for raid, or multiple nic's for network. But its still only 1 server. If you go dedicated and want redundancy, I would say to get two servers at 2 locations and replicate from one to the other incase of hardware failure.
This is the a basic technical difference and explains why Cloud is technically a better solutions. It also depends on your budget.