What are dedicated servers?

This form of hosting is when a physical server is only used by a single company or organisation. They have sole use of all its resources and how it is used. To find out more about our dedicated servers, you can read our blog post here.

What are the benefits of dedicated servers?

With your own server you get a range of benefits. The first of these is customisation. With complete control of the server and its resources, you have the freedom to utilise it exactly how you would like to. The second benefit is congestion, or lack thereof. With other hosting methods, such as shared web hosting and VPS, clients run the risk of having to compete for space and usage levels with other users that also need the bandwidth, disk space and CPU. With a dedicated server this is not a problem as there is no other usage apart from your own.

Managed and unmanaged, what’s the difference?

With unmanaged, you take on the majority of tasks and basically just rent the server. Some of the tasks you’ll need to do will be maintenance, security, and software updates, as well as anything else needed to keep the server secure. Contrast this to managed dedicated hosting, the amount of work you’ll have to do is significantly less. You may have the facilities within your team to help with setup and management, but they will not be required to do as much.