subject: Get The Ultimate Online Connection With Dedicated Server [print this page] All Internet businesses have the same objective in mind, to offer the best products or services at reasonable prices, provide optimum customer service and reap the profits for a job well done. However, simply buying a domain name and constructing a well-designed website is not enough to accomplish this goal. The website has to be connected to the Internet and available 24x7, continually upload and download information quickly and completely, and offer complete control to the webmaster should a problem arise.
Web hosting is the final, and most important step, in opening a company's virtual "doors", on the Internet. A website host provider can offer a company a permanent location using dedicated servers, shared hosting servers or virtual private servers. These computers hold all the directories, files, photographs, MP3s, shopping carts and any other valuable information concerning the company's specific webpages.
Ultimate Connection to the Internet
A dedicated server is simply a racked, or non-racked, standalone computer server whose only function is to operate a single website. It has the ability to use 100% allocation of all the available resources inside the computer including its processing unit, clock speed, RAM and hard drive. Based on its bandwidth connection and the amount of immediate traffic, it can offer lightning fast input and output communication with each visitor to the site. This is the ultimate, though most expensive, Internet connection available to online businesses.
An Inexpensive Alternative
In direct contrast to a dedicated server, is the shared hosting server. Working the same as a dedicated server, shared hosting servers have many multiple websites residing on one single computer. Each website shares all of the resources the single computer has to offer. This very inexpensive option of web hosting comes with specific disadvantages including uneven allocation of resources, when heavy traffic to one or more internal sites is high. This can result in very slow and sluggish website responses.
Though there are specific options available, through different web hosting companies, security between the websites is low and always stands the possibility of being breached. Additionally, should one website cause a crash to the operating system, all the remaining sites residing on the hard drive instantly crash too.
The Best of Both Worlds
If high monthly cost is not an option, or ultimate security is what is required for the company's website, there is a happy medium available in web hosting. Virtual Private Servers are the newest player in the web-hosting sphere. Building on the foundation of a shared hosting server, software has been designed to create multiple "virtual" servers inside a single computer, using partitioning to separate each of them.
Each virtual server residing inside a single large server works on its own individual operating system. Some virtual servers may use a Windows operating system, while others use a UNIX/Linux OS. Each individual virtual server works completely separate and has an equal share of the allocated resources at any given time. This ideal system provides each website its own unique identity, and should one virtual server crash, it does not affect any of the others. There is significant savings to using this type of service over a dedicated system.
With the availability of dedicated servers, VPS and shared hosting, web host providers can offer an ideal solution for any company's budget.
by: Elissa Joyce
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