Most website owners begin their road on the web by acquiring a shared hosting account with a hosting company. At the beginning your website is normally small and your needs are basic. You normally don’t need more than a shared hosting account therefore. A dedicated hosting server at this stage would be unjustifiably expensive.
As the years go by, the website tends to grow. It often becomes interactive, making use of programming languages and databases. Sometimes you want to install your own software, only to have the hosting company tell you that you are not allowed to. You share a server with hundreds of other clients and when one of them uploads a bad script, the whole server sometimes goes down. This is when you start considering the possibility to get your own dedicated 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.
If you do not have staff with the necessary skills, your other option is to sign a rental agreement for a dedicated hosting server with a hosting company or data center. Here you also have two options: you can either have one of your staff members manage the web server on your behalf or you can opt for a 100% managed server, in which case the server company will take responsibility to keep the server up and running and to update the software on the server regularly. If something goes wrong, their support desk will fix it for you.
This option gives you the best of two worlds: you have your own server, where you can install custom software if you so wish and you won’t be negatively affected by what anyone else does on the server, while you don’t have to worry about the day to day maintenance of the server.
A dedicated hosting server is therefore the perfect choice for a small to medium sized business that is no longer satisfied to share a server. The managed option also means that the level of technical skills needed to run the server is very limited. These servers mostly come out with control panels, so you can do all routine tasks by just clicking on an icon.
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