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So what’s the big deal about dedicated hosting? Some of you might be wondering why anyone in their right mind would pay up to ten times more for a dedicated host than they would for a shared host package from a hosting company. Well there are lots of good reasons. First off, you’re not going to be subject to anyone else bogging down your server. Though there are often policies as to how much memory and CPU you can use in a shared environment, anything can happen. Also, blacklists happen. If someone on your shared machine happens to be behaving poorly, the IP and not the URL will likely get added to blacklists. This can cause all kinds of problems. Finally, sometimes you just need to grow beyond what a shared package has to offer. For these reasons and more, a dedicated server is an important step in a webmaster’s progression from starting out to getting serious about his or her business.
Running your own server can be a real pain though. If you ever have considered running your own webserver, Managed Dedicated Servers are a great idea. They take all of the data centre issues away and leave you with nothing but the system administration to worry about. That’s more help than you can imagine. It may not seem like much as you’re planning things out, but in an emergency it’s great to have people out there who are on top of connectivity and disaster recovery issues for your website.
Hosted Solutions is a company that offers just such a dedicated hosting solution allowing you to focus on your system and website. Support’s very important when you’re dealing with any hosting and they offer 24/7/365 support. They stay on top of the OS builds for you which is a huge benefit. Speaking of operating systems, you get your choice of Windows, Solaris or Linux.
“100% SLA on Network Availability”
Now that’s impressive. I haven’t seen that one before. Be sure to read the SLA to see if there are any outs to that, but having that listed as one of your bullets is pretty impressive at first glance. They’ve also got spares for all hardware on site. Now that’s very important because no matter what you do, hardware will eventually fail. Have spares or spare parts on site is going to minimize downtime due to hardware failure as much as possible.
All in all, they look like a top notch organization. That also means you’re probably going to pay top notch prices for their service. But remember that you usually get what you pay for. If you’re serious enough about what you’re doing to go with a dedicated host, you should be equally serious about what you’re going to have to pay for good service.
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