Dedicated Servers Offer Personalized Web Performance

If you're starting a serious online business, you might want to consider dedicated hosting. By definition, dedicated hosting means that a business rents an entire server not shared with any other company. This is much more convenient than shared hosting because you, as the owner, have full control over the server, including choice of operating system, hardware, etc. Administration of your dedicated server is handled by Willamette Hosting.

The greatest advantage of using dedicated hosting is that your website performance will not be affected by high traffic websites with which you would be sharing the server's bandwidth. The dedicated hosting environment provides an exclusive server or servers devoted solely to your web site. You do not share a server with other customers, and you avoid shared hosting.

Before dedicated servers, a webmaster used to have two hosting options, the low-priced shared hosting model and the premium-priced dedicated server. A person who bought space on a shared host would receive a certain amount of disk space and monthly transfer, and would have the site served from a common web server.

The hosts would try to provide a wide range of options for the webmaster, in order to increase to popularity of their products. But, unfortunately, a customer who needed a non-standard program installed or who wanted to use a privileged account in order for a particular utility to run would be completely not allowed to achieve these goals.

One example might be a site which required a database to store the pricing information. Many hosts would provide the MySQL database to use on their servers. If your application required another type of database, then it wouldn't be compatible with the shared hosting account.

Users who don't fit into the standard shared hosting model and find that it doesn't work anymore for them, or whose sites grew very popular and required a large amount of resources have one alternative though: hosting their sites on a dedicated server.

A dedicated server can be customized to exactly fit the needs of a site developer. That's where the name is from. If a particular database is needed, it could be installed instantly. While dedicated servers can be customized and can handle much more traffic than a shared hosting account, their enhanced performance will come with a higher price tag. Remember, administration of your dedicated server is handled by Willamette Hosting. This leaves you even more time to grow your business and online presence.

Contact us to see that Willamette Hosting can assist and help you with your dedicated server requirements.