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Dedicated Hosting

Written by Z. Zivanovic, WebsiteDevelopingTricks.com

Dedicated hosting is a hosting for serious users and it's basically a type of hosting where user lease a whole server for himself, instead of sharing it with other users (which is known as shared or virtual hosting). This type of hosting service gives you the greater freedom in choosing your specific needs and provide more resources than shared services. As you probably know, with shared hosting services the server resources are shared with other users on that machine and your hosting plan is often influenced with other user's activities, which is not a case with dedicated service plans. With dedicated - you're on your own. You can change your server setup, add some specialized services or add-ons to your server setup. Of course there's always a possibility that you can make a mistake and cause some kind of error on your server but that's the point where you can't blame anyone (like on shared).

There is a huge difference between managed and unmanaged dedicated servers. The difference is in service and of course in price. Managed servers consider monitoring and maintaining of your server by a hosting service provider who is then responsible for your server. In case of unmanaged hosting, there is no managing fee, the server lease price is lower but then you are solely responsible for maintaining your server and restoring it in the case of failure. As you can see - managed servers are much secure and believe me, in 99% of situation are well worth the managing fee, especially if you have no understanding of server operational system software like Linux or windows server. If you can - definitely choose managed. If you are a beginner and have no advanced knowledge when it comes to server setup, you must choose managed hosting and save yourself and others of a headache.

I have browsed and used a lot of dedicated hosting providers and I decided to make a small list of my dedicated hosting providers. I am going to list them for you here, as well as add any good ones that I stumble across in the future. So here are my dedicated hosting picks for you to check:

• Ancient Realms Mud And Game Hosting - Specialized in MUD and online game hosting with variety of hosting plans for every need. If you need to host MUDs like Realm Of Gorlimor, Last MUD, Death Of Altereth or games like Battlefield 2, Call Of Duty 2, here is the right spot for you.

I hope that I helped you a bit with some info and leads on dedicated hosting. You can also try googling for "dedicated hosting" or simply click this link that will directly take you to google search results for dedicated hosting. Also, if you have any suggestion or comments on this topic, I would be glad to read them - you can post them on comments page.

Thank you and good luck in choosing your future dedicated hosting provider!