The benefits and challenges of increased business IT activity
For any business wanting to compete in the modern world, IT systems are more important than ever. Many businesses, however, have found that as their IT usage increases, so too have their maintenance costs, technical problems and security threats.
A large part of the solution to these businesses' IT difficulties is to move away from in-house dedicated servers, and to opt for a third-party managed dedicated hosting server. UK firms that have followed this route into dedicated server hosting have, in the main, vowed never to go back to in-house server management.
From dedicated server to managed dedicated server hosting
Most modern business IT usage is server based, a server being a central command computer to which all other computers in the business are linked. Businesses which have their own dedicated server enjoy the complete control and consistent access to IT services, which would be greatly compromised were they to, say, share a server with another party.
However, when a business chooses to opt for managed dedicated server hosting, it effectively leases a server from a third party, or 'host'. Access to the new server, which is based at the host's own data centre, is henceforward made via the internet. The business continues to use the new server exclusively, just as if it were its own dedicated server - but with all maintenance issues now taken care of by its new data centre hosting partner.
The benefits of dedicated server hosting
As well as continuing to enjoy exclusive access to their new dedicated hosting server, UK firms have reported that dedicated server hosting has, in effect, freed them from having to worry about where and how to restore the server, should any technical problems occur.
Other businesses have commented on how much faster, more reliable and generally higher in quality data centre hosting servers are, pointing out that with dedicated server hosting, there are fewer technical issues anyway.
Other benefits of managed dedicated server hosting
Most beneficiaries of data centre hosting often cite increased broadband capacity as one of the advantages of managed dedicated server hosting. Certainly, it is true that with a dedicated hosting server, the UK's best broadband facilities, as well as other superior technologies, will almost always be given investment priority.
Security, another niggling problem that sometimes plagues in-house servers, is also fully taken care of, via monitoring by the host and purchase of the latest security software for the dedicated hosting server.
UK firms have also commented that the freeing up of maintenance costs, with dedicated server hosting, and no longer having to worry about paying for software updates means that datacentre hosting is also highly cost-effective.
Choose ControlCircle for your datacentre hosting
There are very good reasons why many firms have chosen ControlCircle as their dedicated hosting server provider. UK-based, with ample experience in managed dedicated server hosting, we at ControlCircle offer secure, reliable, 24-hour datacentre hosting that is tailored to the individual needs of each business customer, whether large or small.