What Type of Dedicated Server Do You Need?

Let's say that you've build a small online store which targeted your local customer. If you managed the site correctly, I am sure that you will gain a success upon your online business. Year and year to come your store become popular, and then you added more products to be sold. Your customer increased beyond your local area that you have targeted before and your site is not just a small niche store but become one stop online store for your country. Suddenly, your site jammed because its bandwidth exceeded. What would you do if this happened to you?

I suggest, you have to move your hosting into a dedicated server. This type of web hosting service allow you to have a server only for you, it means that the hosting provider doesn't share your server with anybody else. Therefore, the bandwidth that they provide doesn't shared with others.


Now these days the term of dedicated server service has expanded. There are two types of dedicated server service:


1. Managed Hosting
This type of hosting is where you can host your site in hosting provider server. All of the maintenance of your server managed by the provider. You don't have to about the security, monitoring and maintenance the technical aspect of the server, the provider employees will do that kind of stuff for you. Although, this kind of hosting has different type of services depending on the hosting provider that you choose. The features maybe vary from partly through fully managed hosting.

2. Colocation.
The colocation hosting service means that you only rent rack spaces for your server. You have to provide the hardware and the software for your website. However, with this type of hosting you have full control of your own site. The hard part is you have to have good knowledge about the complexity of setting up a server. The hosting company only gives you the bandwidth, and the security matter of your server. The company secured your server in guarded environment; you don't have to worry about losing your server because of thief and natural disaster.
The amount of control and amount of help you want is important to your decision. With Colocation you get complete control as you are only renting rack space. If you don't want this control and want everything taken care of by somebody else then Managed Hosting may be preferable. It means you don't have to be too concerned with the hosting as experts are looking after you website.

As I describe on the first paragraph, your specific needs for your website are obviously key to your decision. Both Colocation and Managed Hosting are good for large websites, but not usually necessary for small, simple ones. For small sites basic hosting may be more cost effective.

So, if your little niche site has grown to the highest level that you have never imagined before maybe is time for your site to move your basic hosting into the dedicated server hosting.