Archive for the 'Windows Dedicated Server' Category

Web Server Hosting

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Web Server hosting is where a server has only one customer on it and he controls all aspects of the server. This provides much greater flexibility than a virtual server, but the burden of administration must be handled by the customer or outsourced to a web server hosting provider.

Web Server Hosting — Control

You get much greater control with web server hosting as you do not share the web server with anyone else. No longer will the volume of another site on the server impact you. Web server hosting also allows you to add any application onto the server that you require, so you are no longer limited to just the standard email and other basic applications found on a virtual server.

Web Server Hosting — Reliability

Web Server hosting provides much greater reliability than virtual hosting. You no longer are exposed to the business practices of other companies sharing a virtual server. Plus you can ensure that security and upgrades are implemented since you control server administration with web server hosting.

Web Server Hosting — Support

Engineering support is also vastly improved with web server hosting. You will still need to select a qualified provider that has good technical skills, but with dedicated hosting the support engineer to customer ratio is much more attractive.

At some point your business requirements may out grow web server hosting on a single server and cause you to upgrade to clustered hosting, but web server hosting is a logical first step for most businesses. Web server hosting allows you to control how your server is used which improves speed, reliability and scalability.

SQL Server Hosting

Friday, August 15th, 2008

SQL Server Hosting

SQL server hosting is where a server that stores and manages databases via Structured Query Language (SQL) is located off site at a hosting company. The hosting company provides access to the Internet and leases the use of the SQL server.

Most often, the phrase “SQL server” refers to Microsoft’s version of SQL which is called either MS SQL or SQL Server. However, some people do use this term when referring to other versions of SQL such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.

SQL Server Hosting Support

The Internet has substantially increased the demand for SQL server hosting as more companies look to make their databases available to customers, vendors and employees. This also requires that the SQL server be available 24/7 so the choice of SQL server hosting provider is critical as well. Unfortunately trying to find a SQL server hosting provider that is qualified is difficult.