Benefits and features of dedicated servers
Dedicated servers for Windows 2003 and Linux from the best hosting provider 2007 guarantee the performance, reliability and care that you need for your Internet business.
The benefits of having a dedicated server include:
- Performance - You are not sharing the system resources such as processor power, memory and disk space with other sites on the same server.
- Greater Reliability - You do not run the risk of the server being slowed down, swamped with traffic, or crashed by another site on a shared server.
- Security - As nobody else has access to the server you can be sure of having a much greater degree of security.
- Custom Configuration - If you need to install special software or configure the server to your own particular needs then often a dedicated server is the solution.
- Custom Firewall - Run your own custom firewall to enforce your own access control policy.
- Your own IP address - Most shared hosting sites share a single IP address, with site traffic directed by the server examining `host headers'. In contrast your dedicated server has its own unique IP address.
- Upgrade Path - More memory, disk space or extra processors can be added as the need arises.
- SLAs - A Service Level Agreement.
There are many different types of servers such as managed servers, shared servers and co-location. These are analysed in more detail here:
- Dedicated servers vs. shared servers
- Dedicated servers vs. managed servers
- Dedicated servers vs. co-location
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