Windows Dedicated Server

In the past a dedicated windows server was the foundation for any major website that broke from being an idea to a viable business. Of course this has always been a fairly significant jump in cost from your low cost shared hosting options. But once you make the jump a dedicated server provides unparalleled stability and configuration because you have direct access to the machine.

Unfortunately you pay the price.

Dedicated servers typically start at 10-100 times that of a shared hosting account. You're also stuck on a single physical machine. It beats sharing that machine with someone but when you need to upgrade or move servers the long dark night begins.

Virtual Private Servers

But a new age is here : Virtual Private Servers. All the benefits of a dedicated server, a fraction of the price, and none of the downsides. With a VPS you get an entire virtual server all to yourself. You connect to it via RDP, like you would a normal dedicated server. You configure it any way you'd like, just like a dedicated server. You share it with no one, just like, yeah, a dedicated server.

But... a VPS is not a single physical machine running in a data center. If you need more memory you don't need to get out a screwdriver. Want more and faster CPUs? The agonizing prospect of setting up a new box and moving everything over doesn't exist. Single point of equipment failure? Eliminated.

In the world of VPS all this changes. Here are a few benefits of going VPS instead of a dedicated server:

Price : A fraction of a dedicated server. Slightly higher than the lowest cost shared hosting, but, well, it's not crappy shared hosting. Prices for our Epic Win servers start at $19/month.
Elastic : Upgrade or downgrade your instance at anytime. Need more CPU? Your instance can be spun down, changed, then spun back up giving you more memory and more CPU power in a matter of minutes.
Simple & Fast : Click 'Create Instance' and in minutes you'll have a full blown virtual server at your disposal.
Pre-configured : Know you want IIS and SQL Server? Or maybe WordPress? How about Orchard or DotNetNuke? Just select that image and your new instance will spin up pre-configured.
Redundant : Data written to your drives is replicated across multiple servers across multiple facilities automagically.
Reliable : Your instances run in Amazon's highly reliable environment that provides 99.95% availability.
Full Server Backup : Backing up your entire server can be done automatically. In the VPS world these are called snapshots and contain an exact copy of your entire server. Not just a database backup or a few meta files. The entire server. These snapshots can be used to bring up an identical server in minutes.