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By Lee Smith
Managed hosting is a type of outsourcing to ensure that
your business websites function correctly 24 hours a day,
365 days a year. Outsourced hosting is a necessity for many
commercial organisations, as IT knowledge is usually
minimal and the costs are significantly higher to host
in-house and therefore outsourcing is essential to
guarantee that server uptime is almost one hundred percent.
There is a large number of hosting companies offering
managed hosting to various clients from all over the world.
Many hosting companies provide their services through
dedicated servers and the server uptime is almost one
hundred percent. Leased servers are also available from
some of the hosting companies exclusively for many
businesses that require dedicated applications or database
applications. Hosting service providers also manage
hardware maintenance and network security, bandwidth and
site monitoring.
Websites generally require managed hosting for smooth
functioning of the website and any application or email
traffic that is necessary.
There are generally two types of hosting - one is Windows
hosting and other Linux hosting. There are several
advantages of managed hosting and depending on the
requirements, suitable hosting can be selected for a
specific website. Generally a team of professionals looks
after the managed hosting and it is good for you to find a
reputable and honest company that offers their outsourcing
services at the most cost effective rates. Many new
companies are coming up in this high growth sector area and
you have to ensure that you balance price with
professionalism and server infrastructure.
A commercial, managed hosting company provides detailed IP
addresses of website visitors during the entire month as
well as also providing visiting trends, anti virus, spam
control and daily backups. Website statistics or analytics
are very useful, especially for commercial websites. Many
Windows and Linux hosting providers offer full database
support and this is vital to the stability of your websites
applications.
Linux hosting provides many features and many people prefer
it to Windows hosting. All commercial service providers
generally have twenty four hour customer support through
phone or email and provide a personal control panel for
easy and efficient administration.
Service providers have support in almost all areas such as
Perl, PHP, MySQL, CGI bin, SSH access and Python. Some
additional features such as POP, SMTP, Webmail, Anonymous
FTP connections and FrontPage extensions may also be
provided to the customers.
Service providers have dedicated IP addresses and excellent
database support and therefore in our opinion Linux hosting
provides many additional features. So, it is necessary for
large commercial organizations and business houses to go
for managed hosting as it provides not only hosting in a
dedicated server, but all types of customer support that is
required for smooth running of the website. Although
Windows and Linux hosting are available, in our opinion
Linux hosting is a better option.
About the Author:
Lee Smith writes about Linux Managed Hosting in London UK
http://www.networkl
