Dedicated Server Hosting
By: Helen Dayman dayman@ion.com.au
Your on-line business is growing, traffic to your website is increasing
and orders are coming in fast. Too fast. Prospective customers are
going elsewhere as your site is becoming congested. Your web pages are
taking too long to load and error messages are greeting their requests.
Time to find a solution to this common problem for rapidly growing on-line
businesses. Dedicated Server Hosting is the answer.
What is the difference you ask? Currently your website is sharing a
server with many other websites. Each of these websites generates traffic
through the server. Imagine for a moment, hundreds of busy websites
generating traffic flow through this server.
Hosting of your website on this shared server might be limited by the
amount of space available to you, say 20gb. Maybe your provider limits
uploading and downloading of data to your site with excess traffic flow
charged. These restrictions can impair the growth of a rapidly growing
on-line business.
There is a solution to this ever-increasing problem. Your on-line
business can be hosted on a single computer linked into a network. This
dedicated server is reserved to service the needs of a single customer,
you. Without the encumbrance of the server dividing the access between
many hosted sites, it is able to provide faster access to data.
The server can be customised to meet the exact needs of your on-line
business. Maybe you, the business owner, have a number of businesses. A
dedicated server can also host a large number of virtual domains enabling
your other on-line businesses to be hosted and accessed separately by your
customers. A dedicated server will decrease your monthly hosting fees by
eliminating multiple hosting accounts and replacing with a single monthly
fee.
It would be great to be able to exercise 100% control over your web
presence. With a dedicated server you can specify and modify the entire
operating system and install the supporting software that meet up with
your website's requirements. Increase faster access to data, scalability
and site analysis. If you have the experience, you can configure the CPU
speed and partition the server to your specifications.
The dedicated server does not share bandwidth or storage space, you have
the entire server to yourself. As no other user has access to the server,
you can modify the settings. You can optimise the server for certain web
applications such as e-commerce and multimedia.
One of the greatest advantages of a dedicated server is that you are
basically renting it. If it breaks down it is the responsibility of the
provider to fix it. They will maintain equipment and the connectivity of
the server. Any repairs or replacement of hardware components is the
responsibility of the provider.
You as the user usually have two service options, managed or unmanaged.
The unmanaged service option is more for the user who has experience with
programming, installing applications and configuring the server. This
service is more economical for advanced users.
Those users who are less confident in their technical expertise can opt
for the managed service. The managed service is ideal as it allows the
user to customise the server without having the technical expertise.
Once you have made the decision to host your on-line business on a
dedicated server, sit back and watch your business grow.
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