Cloud servers vs. dedicated servers — A survey

Dedicated servers are deployed by companies to meet the ever growing computing demand. More storage and more security are sought after by companies. The inefficient scaling of hardware, higher deployment time, installation of old operating systems on new hardware are just some of the areas where dedicated servers suffer. Cloud severs can be used in lieu of dedicated servers. This will not only decrease the overall IT budget of companies but will be more flexible. This paper is a survey done on three start-up companies to inquire about the dedicated servers. Amazon Web Services have been used to rent a cloud server which hosts a website. Comparisons are done graphically and some observations drawn by the companies´ executives about cloud and dedicated servers are mentioned in the latter stage of the paper.