Managed And Unmanaged Dedicated Hosting

Managed And Unmanaged Dedicated Hosting 
By Jack Piersol, Mon Dec 26th 

With large and complex website that receives a lot of trafficyou may find that shared hosting is not for you. It could belimiting your growth and the capacity to serve your customers.If you find yourself in this situation, it may be time to moveon to dedicated hosting which offers many advantages over sharedhosting.

Dedicated web hosting is much more expensive than shared hostingbecause the cost of operating the server is not divided betweenvarious accounts. Paying the higher price, however, lets you useall server resources as you please.

There are many different dedicated hosting packages available.Their prices depend on the physical setup of the server computer- faster processors, mome memory and bigger hard drives costmore.

Managed hosting

Another factor influencing the price is whether or not theserver is managed. Keeping a server running in top condition canbe a time consuming task requiring certain technical skills.

A managed hosting service offers the support and expertise tomaintain your server and to perform routine maintenance withoutyour involvement. This can be a viable alternative to hiringyour own staff to maintain your servers.

The drawback of managed hosting is that it can be a lot moreexpensive than unmanaged hosting. Whether the price is justifieddepends on the complexity of your website and whether youalready have people who can look after the server operations.Unmanaged hosting

Unmanaged hosting, despite its name, does not reallyleave you entirely to your own devices. Most hosting companiesoffer a certain level of support for all their dedicated hostingpackages. This support includes hardware maintenance with extratechnical support available if you need help with configurationor software installation.

You likely will have to pay for this extra support, but it maybe cheaper than going with a full managed package.

Check to see how much control you can have over the serverhardware with unmanaged hosting. You should be able to rebootyour server when you need it or to expect someone to do it foryou with a minimum of delay.

The value of a dedicated hosting package depends on thereliability and integrity of the hosting company. If yourwebsite needs dedicated hosting, you need to use a hostingprovider that you can rely on to keep your site online.

The choice between managed or unmanaged hosting depends on thetechnical requirements of your website and your ability tomanage a server and keep it running at peak efficiency. If youprefer to have highly trained professionals looking after theserver, go with managed hosting. If you can handle most of themaintenance yourself, choose an unmanaged server.

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The Third Wave Of Web Hosting

The Third Wave Of Web Hosting 
By Bruce Zhang
b>The First Wave - ISP Wave

The first wave of Web hosting started in the middle of 1990s. Atthe time, there weren't really many web hosting companies. Webhosting was a part of ISP (Internet Service Provider) operation.Within two years, the number of ISPs had grown from a few dozensto a few thousands in United States alone. Many analystspredicated that the consolidation of ISP industry wasunavoidable. But the analysts didn't pay much attention to thefuture of the web hosting. The web hosting clients for ISPs weremost small to medium-sized organizations which couldn't offer tohave dedicated Internet connection. 

The Second Wave - One Plan Hosting Wave As large telecommunication companies entering into the ISPindustry and the prevailing of broadband connection into bothcommercial and residential buildings, a few leading ISP, such asAOL had grabbed residential users from small ISP companies, andtelecommunication companies had stolen or acquired commercialclients from small or regional ISP companies. Because of theeconomy of scale, ISPs couldn't compete with either AOL, Comcastor Qwest for Internet connection service. Most ISP companieswere disappeared as fast as they were emerged. 

On the other hand, the growth of the Web has pushed the secondwave of web hosting. The web hosting companies offer hostingservice at a fraction of cost of what ISPs used to charge. Incontrast to the Web hosting service from ISP, which is oftencustomized for each client one way or another, the idea of onehosting plan has helped grow the client base from a few hundredsto hundreds of thousands at few leading hosting companies in afew short years. Todays' web hosting companies don't offerInternet connection service at all. It's unbelievable that earlyISP companies had never attempted to transform themselves intoweb hosting companies to survive the inevitable consolidation ofISP industry.