Your server. Not a slice of one
Dedicated hosting means the CPU, RAM, storage, and uplink are entirely yours. No hypervisor overhead, no shared resource pools. VPS hosting does its best to isolate tenants, but there's built-in competition for resources that even the best software can't fully mitigate. What you pay for is what you get.
A dedicated server is a physical machine allocated entirely to you. There's no shared CPU, RAM, storage, or bandwidth — every resource on the hardware is yours. You choose your operating system, install whatever software you need, and configure it however your workload requires. Web of Nevada servers are hosted in a carrier-neutral data center in North Kansas City with redundant power and direct internet exchange connectivity.
Dedicated servers work well for any workload that needs consistent, predictable performance without sharing resources. Common uses include hosting multiple websites or web applications, running databases under sustained load, self-hosting business infrastructure (email, VPN, file storage), deploying game servers, or using the bare metal as a Proxmox hypervisor to run your own virtual machines or VPS services.
Dedicated hosting makes sense when shared or virtual infrastructure isn't meeting your needs. You get the full compute capacity of a physical server, no noisy neighbors affecting your performance, root access to configure the machine exactly as needed, and the option to run a hypervisor like Proxmox if you want to subdivide the hardware yourself. If consistent performance and full control matter more than the cheapest monthly price, dedicated is the right choice.
A cloud VPS runs as a virtual machine on shared physical hardware — you get a portion of a server's resources, and performance can vary depending on what other tenants are doing. A dedicated server gives you the entire physical machine. There's no hypervisor between you and the hardware, no shared resource pools, and performance is consistent and predictable, not subject to what other workloads are doing on shared hardware. Dedicated servers typically cost more than a comparable VPS, but the performance ceiling is higher and it's more consistent. With Web of Nevada dedicated servers you also have the option to install Proxmox yourself and run your own VMs on top of the bare metal.
There's no hard limit — you can host as many websites as your server's CPU, RAM, and storage can handle. A single dedicated server commonly runs dozens to hundreds of low-traffic sites, or a handful of high-traffic or resource-intensive applications. Since the resources are entirely yours, performance scales with what you actually configure, not an arbitrary plan limit.
