Rapid growth happens often with popular Web sites. They start out using a simple shared account, only to consume so much of the server's resources that they are forced to a dedicated server. Other times, a company will simply want the flexibility a dedicated server offers, even if they do not operate a high-traffic Web site.
Put simply, a dedicated server is a computer located in a data center
that is used for a single Web hosting account, whereas shared accounts can potentially share a...
