When looking for a website host, a company that can provide the best connectivity service for the user on the World Wide Web is the goal. Whether a website needs personal or business hosting, the size, type, and level of management needed will determine the expense level. Though shared hosting is more economical due to numerous sites apportioning the overall cost of server maintenance, it is not necessarily right for all website user needs. The hosting dedicated server option, where the website owner leases an entire server not shared with anyone, will provide more flexibility and control over choices of hardware and operating systems.
To help the website owner with costs and technical operation issues, there are different user management levels that can help meet their needs. There are currently no industry standards that outline and define the administrative role of dedicated server providers. Each provider may use normally recognized terms, but may characterize the roles differently. These levels of dedicated server hosting can include unmanaged hosting where the website owner will receive no involvement from the hosting service and a self-management hosting where the hosting service will do some amount of monitoring, and maintenance, but the website owner will still provide most work needed. Another choice of hosting dedicated server is offered where the host controls the physical server, hybrid servers, and virtual servers. This type of hosting for the dedicated server offers more support and services and is commonly referred to as complex managed hosting.
Standard dedicated server hosting and complex managed hosting are similar in some ways, but the essential distinction is the intensity of management and work assistance the customer pays for due to the size and difficulty of the setup. Needing less assistance and having additional technical knowledge, standard dedicated hosting service is more appropriate for web development and system managers. Managed hosting is directed towards consumers with less specialized computer knowledge. In complex managed hosting, the website hosting service takes over most of the administration, information technology support, data safekeeping and storage, browser, network, and memory operating system security. Dedicated servers are normally contained in data complexes that can provide high-level power sources and balanced heating and cooling systems.
