Domain Hosting News and Questions

Elazar Cohen asked:




Due to the previously high cost of dedicated hosting, public knowledge of what exactly a dedicated hosting service entailed was no really available. This is rapidly changing, as companies flock to fast dedicated servers as an essential element of their business model, but there are still a good number of people looking for clear and easy answers when it comes to small business web hosting. I’ll try to provide a few of those here as you seek information on dedicated servers and small business web hosting services.

First: What is a dedicated server? A dedicated server is a complete solution for your company’s internet-based services. This includes: Your small business web hosting server and online store, your incoming and outgoing email, your databases, and your inter-office communication and storage. If you’re looking for a company-wide email service, with a robust web presence including of online, fully database-driven e-commerce website, a fast dedicated web hosting server will suit your needs perfectly. If you’re looking for a fast and easy storage medium to network your offices around the world, a dedicated hosting server will fill that need instantly.

Second: What exactly is Dedicated web server hosting?

Dedicated server hosting for small businesses is very popular. If you have the staff who are available to maintain your fast dedicated small business hosting server, get a self-managed server, meaning that you will have the power to fully administer your fast dedicated server, with no outside appearance, from anywhere in the world.  Make sure you get good amout of space for your server, and a multi-homed, redundant backbone large enough to serve even the largest, most media intensive sites. Server security, security from power outages, security from network downtime, and security from physical intrusion are all features you will want to get with your server.

In Both of these options, Gogax is always onsite and ready to react, whether you need a hardware upgrade, or a little bit of help exploring an issue your techs are curious about. Our team has one goal, to make sure you are beyond satisfied with your Gogax experience. A dedicated server is easy to start and maintain, and you will not be the least bit disappointed in the first class service Gogax provides. Gogax Dedicated Servers



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Stephen Grisham Sr. asked:




Website hosting certainly falls under the purview of economist Adam Smith’s doctrine of division of labour. On the surface it may seem like such a nice money saving idea to be your own web host, but there really is a lot to it. Prior to starting to purchase gear for web hosting, think of all that is entailed in terms of web hosting on your own.

Server: A server is a very powerful computer that is specially configured to deal with network tasks. For a short time, you may be able to get away with buying your own server for a small-scale business. Both IBM and Hewlett Packard offer quality servers. In addition, Dell is a good server provider.

Security: Securing your server is probably the biggest reason not to attempt to do your own website hosting. Hackers and spammers remain one step ahead of security experts — not the other way around. Security is an ongoing, highly technical task. It is absolutely not a matter of buying some sort of server security suite. Unless you have a Redhat or A++ certified administrator or the like on staff, you will probably want to forget the idea of doing your own web hosting.

Software Licensing: The majority of server operating systems are licensed for a given amount of simultaneous users. Getting licenses to cover your software can be really costly.

Network: It will be necessary to obtain a data trunk in the location where you want to base the server. It is highly unlikely that you will be able to just connect your server to your ISP. Some users try that for personal websites and playing around, but you should avoid doing that when hosting your own website as the ISP will restrict your bandwidth. If you are still convinced you want to do your own hosting, and your resource needs are minimal, look into the TOS (Terms of Service) with your ISP.

You will also need to acquire equipment like a handy off-site backup system for your data, as well as a sturdy battery backup to take care of power glitches.

Employees: If you are short a network guru, then you must hire one who is available 24/7 with on call support. Servers and networks go bad all the time, the best ones included. You cannot just set it and forget it. Absolutely not.

Bottom Line: Your website will benefit from the powerful and reliable servers that leased web hosting will provide, saving you a large expenditure on hardware and labor — and headache and downtime. Unless you have an enormous amount of web traffic and a full-time IT staff, it will be much more costly and will cause many problems for you to host your own website. It is possible to find quality shared web hosting for sites that aren’t sizable, beginning around $10 monthly. It would be pretty hard to do better than that!

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