July 31, 2011
Selecting The Best Server Hosting Services
In-house server hosting can be expensive and result in major headaches for small and medium companies. Larger companies often outsource their web and SaaS hosting needs to save money on employment and infrastructure costs. The outsourcing is available to any sized business, but you will need to determine what your needs are before starting the search.
Many different services are now offered through the Internet. A company that needs to have a website will find thousands of hosting companies available to provide the needed services. For internal software, or software as a service, there are more limited selections available.
SaaS hosting companies either use software internally or offer the service to their customers. These types of systems have to have a different type of security, subscriptions services, and other systems setup to manage the volume and allowed access. A VPS hosting solution may work best for this type of situation. It allows the system to be set apart from the others.
Dedicated servers are available from many web providers. The cost depends on the level of management that is needed. These are often reserved for higher end customers because they often are not managed systems. Instead, the software updates and other work is done by someone in the leasing company. The advantage is the isolated IP address. This means if another customer in the system is banned for spam, your IP address is not affected. Sharing IP addresses can be a problem if other customers that share the IP are doing things that can get the IP address blocked from various search engines.
Most providers offer a 99% uptime guarantee. Typically, they will offer credit for any unplanned downtime. If they have a reputation or history of excessive downtime, your business will suffer considerably. The credits offered are a percentage of the total bill you pay. If you pay ten dollars per month and your service is down 50% of the time, you will only be credited five dollars. They do not compensate for lost business due to the outage. This is important to consider when looking into the reliability of any companies you investigate.
Plan for the right amount of traffic. This is not really very easy to do. If your site suddenly becomes very popular, you need to be sure your managed hosting provider will keep the site running and bill you for traffic overages. The worst thing that could happen is for your site to be disabled because you’ve reached your volume limit.
Streaming media sites place a heavy load on the servers. If you plan on including a lot of video services, you may want to lease a dedicated server. This will allow you to keep the burden to yourself, rather than affecting other customers in the system. Your site alone will have the full use of the system in the dedicated type of setup.
It is easy to find a Virtual dedicated hosting company. You need to decide what type of service you will be offering your customers to be able to decide what type of system you should lease. Dedicated and virtual private systems allow the most freedom if your website will have lots of traffic or heavy media involved.
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