{"id":1669,"date":"2020-03-26T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2023-08-24T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:14:07","slug":"comparison-of-riptide-hostings-windows-vms-and-dedicated-hardware-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/comparison-of-riptide-hostings-windows-vms-and-dedicated-hardware-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Riptide Hosting\u2019s Windows VMs and Dedicated Hardware Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>Windows Server Virtual Servers VMs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most common server option now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lower cost entry point when you have fewer users and fewer resource needs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Very flexible because cpu\/ram\/disk space can be added in minutes \u2013 so start smaller\/less expensive and expand as needed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a>Able to bundle Riptide\u2019s Microsoft Licensing via SPLA on both VMs or Dedicated for Windows, RDS, Office &amp; SQL<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Limitation on our VMs: Cannot use your own MS licensing, free SQL Express is ok.&nbsp; Can only use Office &amp; SQL Standard licensing through Riptide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Full image backup included where we can restore a full VM in minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Includes 1 Public\/Static IP address<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cannot use your own hardware firewall\/vpn device (which you can colocate with a dedicated server)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generally limited to 500 GB disk space is which plenty for most but not all clients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Windows Dedicated Hardware Servers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Great for handling much higher levels of users, cpu, ram and disk space<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comes with much higher amounts of CPU, disk space and RAM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Includes 3 Public\/Static IP addresses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dedicated server is the only option to use your own Microsoft licensing for SQL Server Standard or Office due to Microsoft Licensing Terms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Not as flexible because we have to swap out hardware pieces to increase ram, cpu, disk space<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More expensive entry-point<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Able to use Riptide\u2019s Microsoft Licensing via SPLA on both VMs or Dedicated for Windows, RDS, Office &amp; SQL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If applicable, having a dedicated server is the only option for a client to co-locate a hardware firewall\/VPN device in front of the server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are responsible for your own backup process (we don&#8217;t have a backup offering for dedicated hardware servers)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dell Idrac Enterprise offering out-of-band console access <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server Virtual Servers VMs: Windows Dedicated Hardware Servers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-remote-desktop-hosting","category-uncategorized","category-windows-server-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}