Why are dedicated servers ideal for streaming content?

Do you want to create a web project to share your video tutorials, webinars, training courses, podcasts or music tracks? In these cases, a hosting might not be enough given the high complexity and resource requirements needed to stream the content.

Dedicated server might then be the ideal solution to control your content yourself, having complete freedom on how to share and distribute it with your audience.

Table of Contents:
Content: streaming vs. downloading
What is a dedicated server?
What features are essential for streaming content?
Choose our servers for streaming your content
Content: streaming vs. downloading
Technically speaking, streaming allows the continuous transmission of audio or video files from a server to an end user-think, for example, of when you watch Netflix or listen to your favorite podcast.

The real advantage of streaming is to allow you to watch the audio or video file without having to download it: with downloading, in fact, the copy of the entire file is saved to your pc’s hard drive.

Ideally, for content streaming to be successful, server reliability and speed is critical to avoid any lag (latency) or poor playback quality. You will need to optimally manage the high bandwidth (i.e., visitor traffic) and processing demands that come with the weight of streaming content.

A hosting service does not have the resources necessary to enable streaming. For this very reason, you need to steer your choice toward dedicated solutions that provide what you need to get the most out of your streaming experience.

What is a dedicated server?
A dedicated server is a real physical machine with a large amount of resources (bandwidth, RAM, CPU, etc.), providing you with maximum autonomy of use. It is ideal for tech-savvy people who know how to manage the machine and for those activities that require intensive use of resources and high daily traffic, just like streaming sites.

Resources are reserved for you, without any interference with other users, as is the case with shared hosting, and the machine is in your total management, whereas in VPS hosting you have your own virtual private space but technically share the server.

The advantages of dedicated servers are high customization, very fast page load times and uptime, and total management autonomy. While the disadvantage is the significantly higher cost compared to a shared solution, the benefit in terms of performance is obvious.

What features are essential for streaming content?
Here are some of the features offered by a dedicated server that can satisfy content streaming:

• Bandwidth: Dedicated servers have a significant amount of bandwidth, perfect for handling streaming.
• Data storage: many dedicated servers use solid-state drives, SSDs, for data storage, with SATA hard drives for backup. In addition, some servers now support NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), a modern storage protocol that works with solid-state drives (SSDs) to provide faster input/output (I/O) and higher bandwidth. This new protocol provides nearly double the speed for your website.
• Server control: you have full control and autonomy over your server: run and configure it in an environment reserved for you, with the ability to adjust hardware specifications and install your own operating system.
• Security: you are the only one with access to your dedicated server so you can optimize your website with all the features you need. There are no software vulnerabilities or malicious configurations but remember that you are responsible for your own server.

Choose our servers to stream your content
Dedicated servers are the ideal tool if you are looking for excellent performance and superior quality. Trust us and choose from the latest generation of dedicated servers with Intel Xeon processors and SATA3, SSD or NVMe disks!