It is conventional wisdom that  dedicated server hosting with extended support and management delivering system-level administration and support, comprehensive Internet infrastructure and extensive services that relieve IT departments of many critical, but expensive responsibilities, is the ideal. Yet, in a managed hosting environment, the provider owns the data centers, the network, the server and other devices, and is responsible for deploying, maintaining and monitoring them offers a commercially realistic solution.

Does your company have the IT resources to efficiently run your corporate websites and online business applications? Are you able to make the necessary investments in infrastructure and updated technology to improve your online performance? Does your IT staff have the expertise to manage the processes, platforms, software, and reporting tools to meet today’s requirements for infrastructure security and reliability?  Application hosting needs experienced operators which focus exclusively on managing the infrastructure and complex web-enabled applications for portals, retail sites, disaster recovery sites, and corporate websites for our customers.

Dedicated Hosting is a form of web hosting where a client chooses to lease an entire server housed in an off-site data centre that is dedicated to their uses only, and not sharing it with anyone else as in a shared hosting environment. This contrast to  Managed Hosting, where the customer needs to have the capability to perform all system administration and management activities on the server from their remote desktop.

Dedicated Hosting offers the customer their own private server thus offering  complete control over its use. Most web hosting packages are called shared hosting providers - not dedicated hosting providers. What this means is that the server or servers that host your website are simultaneously hosting numerous other websites also. This gives you a discounted rate on web hosting services in exchange for tolerating certain technical constraints, like bandwidth, disk space, upload and download speeds, security and privacy, traffic, and probably the most notable restriction -- total control.

The key factors that a customer needs to  should consider are: