If your business is located in the Netherlands, or if you would simply like to attract visitors from the country, then you should consider getting a dedicated server from Netherlands. The thinking behind this fact is that Google tends to give the users of a certain country results that are based at home.

Most of the people who first start an online business and do not require too many resources and do not expect very much traffic to be going through their sites. Therefore they go for shared web hosting and after realizing the many disadvantages it has over the dedicated counterpart. It is one of the natural processes in the life of an online businessman to start off with the low cost option of shared webhosting and then gradually when the user base and traffic builds up with time, he tends to migrate to a dedicated server with a higher cost and quite a few options to play around with.

The response time of a website is the time it takes for the page to show up on the user’s screen after the request is first made. This time varies from a few milliseconds (the thousandth part of a second) to a few seconds. If this this time is too long, it can prove to be a deal breaker for your business because users tend to be driven away by long response times. And the users do not only leave the page that time, but they tend never to come back thinking it is a waste of time.

Response times are quite large with shared servers because it is never known when users of other sites also hosted on that server, clog up the traffic and cause delays for users who are trying to access your website. The solution for these sorts of problems is usually to migrate on to a dedicated server. This means that the whole thing would be yours to use as you please. The processor power, RAM and hard drive space will all be at your and only your disposal. The result is a faster response time for your users.

You also get to configure the server the way you want it. If you need some software installed on your server to run the site properly, you are free to do so because you own the whole thing for as long as you are paying the rent. You might be paying a lot more than you would for a shared server, but the peace of mind and the satisfaction that you get with the dedicated server cannot be matched.

The tech support is also phenomenal. The phone is answered within the first couple of minutes of calling and the folks on the other side of the telephone line are very well informed and actually answer your questions instead of just putting you on hold.

All things considered, a dedicated server is probably the way to go if the number of users that access you site are quite large or if you handle sensitive data and need a greater amount of security than a shared server.