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What do you do when you have created a successful website, one that’s so successful that your current hosting set up just isn’t up to the task and your hosting company are not too pleased with you?

It is a nice predicament to have, but a dilemma just the same!

When customers begin finding that they can’t get access to your web site for the reason that it’s been taken offline thanks to high resource usage, or that the response time is glacially slow, they typically give up, go to your competitors web site and buy from them instead.

When that happens it’s time to start exploring dedicated web hosting!

Before you dive straight into dedicated web hosting the first thing you ought to do is to take a sensible study of your existing website business and do a thorough analysis of both your current needs and your projected future requirements. Clearly you’ll be anticipating growth over the coming years, so make sure that you think about the expected increase in demand when working out your requirements.

You might be wondering why you shouldn’t just go for a bigger and better shared hosting plan? The problem is that with shared hosting your site is sharing the identical hardware resources as numerous other sites, therefore if those sites are employing a ton of system resources then your web site is going to suffer. Do you actually want to be in competition with the other sites on your server for precious resources that you need to keep your site running smoothly? Or would you rather have them all to yourself, guaranteeing your customers the best experience and making certain that your site can keep up and running 24/7?

Of course with dedicated hosting there are more benefits, such as having far more control over the environment that your web site runs in, the flexibility to install and run your own software, and not having to stress about what you use your disk space for.

But whereas a dedicated server may be the best solution for any business that’s serious regarding it’s net presence it’s not without it’s drawbacks. For instance, there is the cost issue. Traditionally a dedicated server has been an expensive option that only huge firms or the successful and profitable businesses could afford. Fortunately that’s now not the case, and while there are still a heap of expensive dedicated hosting packages on offer there is also a lot of firms providing cheap dedicated hosting as well.

Perhaps the most important disadvantage is that of support. A lot of dedicated server packages provide you with the server and leave you to run it as if the server was in your offices. This means that you are responsible for pretty much every technical facet of running the server, and if you are not technical then this can be a problem. There are a variety of solutions to this problem including recruiting someone to help you, or, opting for managed server hosting, where the hosting company can handle technical aspects for you, but typically at an increased price.