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:

There are advantages to using Window hosting on your web site. Although there is no real difference to what a web visitor sees on a site hosted with Windows versus what a web visitor sees on a site hosted with Linux, the differences are more in the back end administration and site development.  Macquarie Windows Hosting delivers on the benefits of Microsoft Server 2008 Performance.

Macquarie Sever Hosting is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Performance is an extremely important factor when considering a potential web hosting provider. Basic features such as shopping carts, SSL certificates, PayPal integration and merchant accounts are essential as are 24x7x365 support to your Microsoft Windows servers for both Windows 2003 servers and Windows 2000 servers.