As always when there’s something new in the market it is the most talked about topic. Similarly, with the launch of Peer to Peer there was a buzz around. When things come into existence its obvious that people start comparing with the products available in the industry. Peer to Peer (P2P) is a distributed application architecture which has multiple servers connected to each other, which can be said as computing or networking that has partitions tasks or work loads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.

On the other hand dedicated servers act as the individual identity and one of the best opted solutions for the businesses. As we all know that dedicated server hosting is the most advantageous and robust technology which provides many a benefits to the users. Dedicated servers have own set of parameters and not being shared on any platform by any other user, all the resources are meant to be used by the single user itself. Whereas, Peers make a portion of their resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth, directly available to other network participants, without the need for central coordination by servers or stable hosts. Peers are both suppliers and consumers of resources, in contrast to the traditional client–server model where only servers supply, and clients consume.

Dedicated Web Hosting Solution is basically considered by the large business groups who has the requirement of larger bandwidth, huge amount of space and has so many different requirements. Very small businesses, those with less than a handful of PCs, often use informal peer-to-peer networks to share files and printers. In sharp contrast to a more robust client/server network with a dedicated server computer, a peer-to-peer network is often selected to keep costs to a minimum and is generally built around a consumer-oriented operating system, such as Microsoft Windows 98.

There can be so many advantages and pitfalls too of investing in both the servers. It depends on the requirement and the particular choice of the people what exactly they are looking for. If we discuss about the Gaming server part then surely we a handful of information to distinguish them like in dedicated server Nobody is the host. There is minimal ping difference, as people always tend to join servers closest to them, therefore the lag, in 99% of cases. When we speak about peer to peer server as the name implies, is a way of having an online game with no servers involved apart from a master server (like IWNet, the server for MW2 on PC, PS3 and 360). Basically, it looks for the person with the best connection. The best upload speed will be the best host. Generally, Dedicated Servers are paid for by the community, not the game developers. All the game developers need to do is have a master server, like any other, to hold the list of all the servers people have bought and maintained with their own money. On the Peer to Peer side P2P is choice free, and completely controlled. P2P has playlists. This means you just choose to play a game type like CTF or Domination or Team Slayer / Team Deathmatch.

From the above discussion its more over clear that which is a better option to opt for. This gives a fair view about the Dedicated web servers as well as the Peer to Peer servers.