With great power comes great responsibility -- unlike the shared hosting the customer has to maintain the dedicated server (un-managed hosting) unless the customer pays extra bucks to the hosting provider for maintenance (managed hosting). If you are a technically knowledgeable enough to maintain the entire server or have a system administrator to do that job then go for un-managed dedicated server. In this case the provider may just give you a server with just the operating system, possibly containing a control panel. It is your responsibility to take care of all upgrades, patches, configuration, security, and bug fixing. On the other hand if you are not tech-savvy or don't want to hire a system administrator then pay the hosting provider to do all the server administration tasks, provided the web hosting company offers thus type of maintenance service. A managed hosting service can be significantly costlier than the un-manager hosting, but it may be worth the extra cost depending on your situation.
Note that unlike the colocation web hosting, here the dedicated server system is owned by the hosting company, not the customer who is just renting it for a fee.
Pros:
This is a no-brainer.
- The complete server machine is at your disposal, so you can choose the operating system, install or uninstall any software you like, reboot at your will, host as many website as you like.
- More bandwidth, more RAM, more storage space, more computing power
- higher cost
- As described earlier you have to have solid technical knowledge to operate and administer the system.
- Mission-critical business
- website containing a lot of multi-media components e.g. videos
- gaming websites
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