If you are contemplating choosing between dedicated and VPS hosting, you must already understand that both have unique benefits, making the decision a very difficult one.

Dedicated hosting
A dedicated server utilizes a real hardware server that will stand alone to perform all the requests of websites.

VPS Hosting
A VPS server is a virtual dedicated server that performs the requests of websites as well as other customers of the hosting company. With this type of hosting, you share all the resources with other customers.

Speed & Performance Differences
Some believe that dedicated hosting allows you to have faster speed for all the requests you demand while VPS since it is shared can be slow to react. This is not a true statement as with VPS hosting you have your own portion of the server and what others do with their portion does not affect your speed.

VPS (Virtual Private Server) offers everything you find with a dedicated server, which includes a cPanel as well as the ability to perform all tasks that need to be performed. The best way to determine what your website really needs in the way of hosting is to decide your performance requirements. You should pay close attention to such things as bandwidth usage, database access times, and processor usage.

Learn if your website is slow during a specific time of the day and then speeds back up in a few hours. If this is the case, then it is more than likely that you should check into dedicated hosting over VPS hosting. If you are not seeing any problems and the speed and performance stays the same 24/7, then VPS Hosting will do just fine. The performance of your website or websites is the key to understanding which type of hosting is best in your situation. A dedicated hosting plan is more expensive and if your profits are not up there yet, waiting until you have performance issues may be your best bet.