What do you do when you have created a successful website, one that’s so successful that your current hosting set up just is not up to the task and your hosting company aren’t too happy with you?

It is a nice dilemma to possess, but a predicament just the same!

When customers start finding that they cannot get access to your site since it’s been taken offline due to high resource usage, or that the response time is glacially slow, they typically give up, visit your competitors website and purchase from them instead.

When that happens it’s time to start exploring dedicated web hosting!

Before you dive straight into dedicated web hosting the first thing you ought to do is to take a sensible look at your existing website business and do a thorough analysis of both your current needs and your projected future requirements. Obviously you may be anticipating growth over the coming years, so make sure that you think about the expected increase in demand when working out your requirements.

You might be wondering why you should not just select a bigger and better shared hosting plan? The problem is that with shared hosting your site is sharing the identical hardware resources as numerous other sites, therefore if those sites are using a heap of system resources then your web site is going to suffer. Do you actually want to be in competition with the other sites on your server for precious resources that you need to keep your web site running smoothly? Or would you rather have all of them to yourself, guaranteeing your customers the best experience and ensuring that your web site can keep up and running 24/7?

In fact with dedicated hosting there are more benefits, such as having way more control over the environment that your web site runs in, the ability to install and run your own software, and not having to worry about what you use your disk space for.

But whereas a dedicated server could be the perfect solution for any business that is serious about it’s internet presence it’s not without it’s drawbacks. For example, there’s the price issue. Historically a dedicated server has been an expensive option that only big firms or the successful and profitable businesses could afford. Thankfully that’s now not the case, and whereas there are still a heap of pricey dedicated hosting packages on offer there’s also a lot of companies providing cheap dedicated hosting as well.

Perhaps the most important drawback is that of support. A lot of dedicated server packages provide you with the server and leave you to run it as if the server was in your offices. This means that you’re responsible for just about every technical facet of running the server, and if you are not technical then this may be a problem. There are a selection of solutions to this problem including recruiting somebody to help you, or, opting for managed server hosting, where the hosting company can handle technical aspects for you, but usually at an increased price.