What is the difference between a colocated server a dedicated server and a virtual server?
These three terms have been confused over the years by customers and companies that try to sell them as similar products. The generally accepted definitions are as follows: A Dedicated server is as stated above, a server that a customer has all to themselves for customized use and services. This dedicated server is then managed by the company that provides the server or network access. A Colocated server is similar to a dedicated server, but instead the customer completely manages the server and is usually given physical partitioned space for their servers that is separate from other customer’s servers. A virtual server refers to the practice of creating a separate software partition of software that acts like a dedicated physical server, but is actually hosted with other virtual servers on the same physical server. Sometimes people will also say virtual server and mean virtual host, which is simply a partitioning of websites from each other. Virtual hosting is something that is done b
