How A Dedicated Hosting Server Can Benefit Your Business
July 8, 2010 by Rheza Sulaiman
Filed under Web Hosting
Most businesses start their journey on the Internet with a shared hosting account at some or other hosting company. At that stage your website requirements are rather basic and you normally don’t need a dedicated hosting server.
As time goes by, however, your needs become more sophisticated. You want more control over what happens to your website. When you share a server, you often share it with more than a thousand other websites. Whenever something goes wrong, all the websites on the server are affected. It’s at times like these that you’ll start wondering about whether you need to switch to your own server.
You can approach this in two different ways, depending on your requirements. Your first alternative is to purchase a dedicated hosting server and then sign an agreement with a data center or web hosting company to co-locate your server. You will have to pay them a monthly or yearly fee for this. Your staff will be fully responsible to handle the technical maintenance as well as software updates on the web server. You will therefore need trained staff to do this.
Very often a small business doesn’t have staff with the required skills to do all this. Your best solution then is to rent a dedicated hosting server from a data center/hosting company. When you rent, you also have 2 different options: the first is to manage the server yourself, in which case the skills problem can arise again. The second option is to rent a fully managed server. In this case the data center or hosting company agrees to keep the server in a perfectly running condition and to do all the necessary software updates regularly. If you have a problem, their support staff will be there to help you out.
The managed option thus allows you have your own server without knowing much about the technical side of servers. You can install any software you want, and you don’t have to fear that the actions of another website will bring yours down.
For a growing business that is no longer happy with the limitations of a sharing a server, a managed dedicated hosting server is therefore the perfect solution. You don’t need highly trained people to run the server, because most of them comes out with a control panel which makes it very easy to manage basic tasks.
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