Managed Dedicated Servers – Pros and Cons

Dedicated servers are the most secured hosting solutions available currently. In fact, with this hosting solution, users get full control on the resources in the server. No matter whether you want to install new software or want your data to be absolutely secured, dedicated hosting solutions are the most coveted ones. You can makes this most coveted hosting solution better by choosing the managed option, where the service provider’s experts and specialists monitor your dedicated server 24x7 and thereby help in improving the performance like never before experienced by you. Managed dedicated servers can also help your business from maintaining a dedicated IT team for looking after your dedicated hosting solution. Hence, it can be said that managed hosting solutions are extremely good for large businesses. However, most small and medium sized enterprises shy away from dedicated solutions because of the cost factor.

As the entire hosting system in a dedicated server is meant for a single user account, the entire burden of hardware maintenance, bandwidth cost, power related arrangements, and others are borne by a single entity. This is the reason why the prices of dedicated servers, especially the managed ones are so high. Just like any hosting solution, Fully managed dedicated hosting solution also come with its own pros and cons. First of all, we will check the advantages associated with managed dedicated servers and then will discuss about their disadvantages. Pros • Enhanced Security When you choose managed dedicated hosting, two specific improvements take place and they are data separation as well as on-call security features. • On-Call Security Maintenance Odd things don’t happen when you want them to take place. They have no office hours. They can happen at 10am or dead of the night when you are sleeping. Productivity of a dedicated server can go downhill if – o Any hacker stuffs your mail server with malware o Any entity wants to bypass your site’s firewall o A scheduled patch causes your website to go haywire This problem can be safely bypassed, your website can run smoothly, and you can enjoy your sleep at dead of the night if you choose managed dedicated hosting, which will do the on-call security maintenance. Dedicated professionals/specialists/experts of having required skills as well as experience will notice the problems on a real tie basis and will correct them when they actually happen no matter whether they happen early morning or dead of night. • Data Separation Though the incidence of this security flaw is less, it has been seen sometimes that flaw in one user’s website setup has led to compromise in multiple websites. This problem is prevalent in cases where backend of the sites are same. In such cases, employee databases can get compromised. This is where dedicated servers come handy. There is no linking between a dedicated server with that of the other services of a hosting company. One of the very common attack types is known as DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service), which takes place when an entity floods a server with numerous data requests. This kind of attack generally takes place in unmanaged dedicated servers or shared servers. If you are using a managed dedicated service then the experts appointed by the service provider will look into the matter and rectify it before the problem reaches a position where it actually adversely affects the normal working of the server. • Other Benefits Other advantages include immense flexibility, ability to grow with clients, technological advancement, and more affordable option when compared with in-house server set-up. Cons • Cost The biggest disadvantage of managed dedicated servers is that the cost factor. This is the reason why they can’t be afforded by the large hosting companies.