Managed Server and Hosting Solutions

The question of fully managed servers vs. managing your own servers is more often than not, a financial question. It’s about start-up costs and the equation of  capex vs. opex. For sure owning your own servers can offer considerable flexibility at an operational and technical level and may indeed seem like a stable, long-term solution, but for many business decision-makers the costs associated with implementing it can quickly put a company’s budgets into the red.

There are several potential benefits to using managed server hosting not the least of which is hardware and scalability. Owning your own server may restrict bandwidth demands. With new media and an expanded use of videos and audio files, bandwidth demands could overwhelm an in-house server. In a managed server host know your needs.  This allows you to use the host's technical staff and technical reoccur, rather than hiring extra staff or resources that  would be required if you handled your own hosting.

In a managed hosting environment, in effect you are simply renting the host's equipment. The managed hosting and managed server facility will make decisions concerning host upgrades as new technology becomes available. Moreover, a managed hosting provider will take care of all support functions for your server. Network problems and hardware failures are considered to be high priority in a managed hosting and managed server environment as the business case would demand minimal outage and down time in relation to customers.

In managed hosting and managed server facility you have the added security and comfort of knowing that  server backup is available and in many cases,  periodic data backup is offered as an added precaution against data loss or corruption.

High service levels guaranteed by a specialist managed hosting and managed server facility are an important element of the capex versus opex decision.  In an increasingly data intensive business world the issue of availability of  internet and internet availability is heightened. A desk top without access to online resources today is considered virtually useless.  A managed hosting and managed