Dedicated Server Hosting

Dedicated Server Hosting means that you as a website owner and customer of the web hosting provider rent the entire server. Because you don't share the server with any other party, you have full control over the server and you can make the choice of operating system and hardware usage and configurations.

Will Dedicated Server Hosting be the best option for me?

Dedicated Server Hosting is the most expensive way of web hosting. But it's also the best of the best. Dedicated Server Hosting is used for a website or a group of related company websites that usually get very much traffic. Dedicated Server Hosting will be beneficial for you if you have a complex business or an e-commerce website that needs more space and security. Are you in this situation then do some more research before you make your decision, but I think you need a dedicated server.

Managed and Unmanaged Dedicated Servers

If you choose for dedicated server hosting you can decide to use a managed decicated server or an unmanaged dedicated server.

Managed Dedicated Server

Managed dedicated servers are fully managed by the web hosting provider. You as the website owner can only set up some basic things like domain names and mailboxes. The web host provider will take care for all updates and maintenance of the server.

Unmanaged Dedicated Server

Unmanaged dedicated servers are managed by you as the website owner. You must realize that you have to take care for all the configuring and maintenance of the server by yourself. You also have to take care for up to date software to keep the server hacker free.

Should I use an Unmanaged or a Managed Dedicated Server?

It's true that an unmanaged server is less expensive than a managed server but don't look only at the price. Using an unmanaged dedicated server does require Unix knowledge. If you don't have this knowledge you must know that you have to invest a lot of time to learn this stuff. Next to this you also need the time for the maintenance of the server itself.

You as a business owner should invest more time in your real business than in maintaining and configuring a dedicated server.

It's your choice but when you have just a little experience maintaining and configuring servers, our advice is to pick the managed dedicated server.