Dedicated web hosting is a single customer hosted web
site, supported on a single server infrastructure configured for personal or
business use, supplied by a hosting service provider, which tends to be a more
expensive solution than virtual or shared hosting. Web publisher's who choose
this type of service tend to be customers that require extremely very large
hosted sites or have very special requirements.
The
benefits of using such a service is that the web publisher's site performance or
security will not be effected by any other web hosted sites sharing the same
resources.
Disadvantages
of dedicated servers are they tend to be more expensive, due to no economy of
scale which results in higher labour costs and requires a higher technical
knowledge to maintain the day to day management/security complexity.