Chủ Nhật, 31 tháng 7, 2011

Selecting The Top Server Hosting Services

By Adriana Noton


Investing in in-house server hosting does not make financial sense for small to medium sized companies. The reality is that many major companies outsource their virtual private servers as well. This helps them save money because they do not have to spend money on the infrastructure and hiring of specialists to manage them. In order to determine the best company to contract with.

There are several types of services offered via the Internet. If your business needs a website, there are literally thousands of companies available. For those that need to have their internal software hosted for employees or companies, such as software as a service, there are a much smaller number of companies 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 and Virtual private hosting services are common with many providers. The systems are usually leased by higher end customers because the higher cost. Considering the advantages that they enjoy, the additional cost is relatively small. Having a separate IP address that is not shared can save headaches if neighbor customers are employing spam methods that get the shared IP banned from sites. With the dedicated systems, you also are not having to share the computer load with anyone else in the system.

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.

The amount of traffic allowed should be scalable. If the host does not offer unlimited bandwidth, then you need to be sure that you can easily purchase more without interruption. In other words, if your traffic spikes suddenly, they should continue handling it for you while they bill you for the overage. Having a website stop service while they wait for payment is unacceptable because your site will go down at your peak service time.

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.

Finding a Virtual dedicated hosting company is easy. However, you may be disappointed if you do not think about what you are needing before beginning the search. Start with deciding if you are going to be providing streaming media services, how much traffic you expect, and whether or not you may need to expand systems to accommodate growth.




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