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Performance
If we consider like for like a dedicated server will always out-perform a VPS this is especially true
when we consider disk retrieval such as multiple read/write operations. This is because VPS tend to
advertise on disk capacity rather than on read/write speed and efficiency and obviously the more
tenants accessing the drive at any given time will create delays due to queuing. For example in a VPS
scenario if another tenant activates a large report that requires a lot of disk read access or worse
updates a database table with a lot of write commands it is just like in the condo scenario of tenants
hogging the lift and you will just have to wait.