A Managed Dedicated Server Has Many Advantages

Most people choose shared hosting for their website at the beginning. Shared hosting is a hosting account on which you host your website on a shared server with hundreds of other people's websites. Shared hosting is usually very affordable due to the number of websites sharing the space and resources on each server. The downside of this is your website has to share the resources on the server such as processing power and memory. This means if particular websites are very busy and getting loads of traffic, they will obviously draw more processing power and server memory. This can lead to your website being slow to open and your potential customer won't wait for your website to display; they'll just go elsewhere! The other drawback with sharing a server with so many websites is a server is only as reliable as the scripts being written to it. If a particular website uses a bad script it can take the whole server down. Your website will go down as well and through no fault of your own.

If your online business is mission critical and you want to avoid suffering any downtime or slowness, your best option is your own dedicated server. And if you are not at all technical then the best option of all is a fully managed dedicated server. A fully managed dedicated server is managed for you by your hosting provider. You won't have full root access to it but you will get a control panel which you use to set up your website space and that's it. So in a way, similar to a shared server, except it's yours with only your websites using it. This used to be quite an expensive option but prices have come down and there are wide ranges of hosting providers who offer fully managed dedicated servers from as low as £50 or £60 a month.

The other advantage of your own dedicated server is you can install any software you want. On a shared server you are only able to use the pre-installed software and components provided and this can be limiting. If it's fully managed your hosting provider will install the software for you and they may make a small installation charge. You also get far more web space to use - if the hard drive on the server is 80GB then you can use about 74GB of that for your websites and software. And with a dedicated server you will get far more bandwidth to use than you would on a shared server. In fact, there are a number of hosting providers who now offer 1 terabyte of monthly bandwidth use which is more than enough for most online businesses.

You will notice a huge improvement in the speed that your websites load when they're on a dedicated server. If you sell products through your website then it's definitely worth considering a dedicated server. This will improve your service to your customers and having a slick and fast purchasing process will help maximise the number of sales you make.

Remember with a fully managed dedicated server you do not need any technical expertise. Your hosting provider will take care of your server and all the software and operating system updates, leaving you free to concentrate on your business.

Check out the cost of a fully managed dedicated server today and take your online business to the next level.

For more information, visit host.freeparking.co.uk/mds.asp.

About The Author

Dickie Armour is the General Manager of Fibranet Services Ltd., http://www.fibranet-services.co.uk a UK Web Design and Software Development company with over 11 years of experience in the industry. Fibranet Services are also the European partner of http://www.Freeparking.co.uk. Freeparking is an ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registrar, managing over 300,000 domain names for customers in over 180 countries. Established over 10 years ago, the Freeparking.co.uk website - which pioneered self management of domains and DNS - is the fourth most popular .uk website in the world, according to Minirank.co.uk

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