Benefits of Dedicated and Managed Servers

So you have done the right thing and optimized your web site for search engines and it has paid off. Your web traffic has skyrocketed and you are starting to see the financial rewards for your work. It is a good time to be in business! Then it happens, your site crashes because of high volume traffic. So much traffic in fact, that it is actually too much. You didn't think that would be a problem, but now you are faced with financial losses because your web site is hosted on a shared server. It is time to make a change. You need a site hosted by dedicated servers also knows as managed servers. You still have a few choices to make.

Whether a company utilizes dedicated servers and managed servers they must choose based upon a number of factors:

· Availability

· Price

· Employee familiarity

These things often dictate which operating systems will be used in their dedicate servers. Should it be Linux, Unix, Red Hat and the list goes on. Open source or fee based, if you don't have someone on staff that knows the in's and out's then you must move towards managed servers. Managed servers are basically dedicated servers wherein the hosting provider acts as the administrator of the dedicated servers.

The dedicated server provides a wise solution for those not satisfied with a shared server, it offers more control and flexibility and in many cases a lower overhead which equates to a higher return on investment.

Whether your choice is dedicated servers onsite or collocated or if it is managed servers hosted and administrated via contractor on site or off you will be better served. Maybe your still not convince about switching over. There are more benefits than just bandwidth and overhead.

Dedicated server providers also provide high measures of security to guard the data stored. Many different pieces of software constantly asses the system and network to ensure that hackers, virus' and other destructive items don't infect the server.

Managed server providers usually take care of all the technological issue you may face, but not all are created equal. You should do a bit of shopping and ask plenty of questions before deciding what you want to choose or who you should do business with. Make sure that you ask for a few references and then check with the clients to see if they were or are happy with their choice.

As with any technology, your expectations should be reasonable. To expect a site to never crash or have problems is simply out of the question. But it isn't unreasonable to expect ninety percent and higher uptime from your server. What is really important if you are contracting personnel is that your server is monitored for its uptime. Their response time is critical. You don't want an hour to go by before they notice.

Be aware that both dedicated servers and managed servers do have some limitations, but it is usually on the provider side that limitations emerge. Many do not allow for IRC, pornographic content or material that violates copyright laws.

It is easy to see that dedicated servers and managed servers possess enough beneficial aspects for you to consider changing the way you do business.