A Guide to the New Managed Web Hosting Services
There are two types of Web Hosting being dedicated Web Hosting and then there is Managed Web Hosting. The difference is with dedicated hosting all you are getting is a company that will see to it your website is capable of being on the World Wide Web. They do not provide any services to run and maintain your site. Now Managed Web Hosting is a new idea. What it does for you is act like your web administrator. You will have all the services that dedicated hosting gives you plus you will have full monitoring and maintenance services plus technical support.
For the new web owner it can become confusing because the dedicated services can become hard to manage technically. Most often the owners will turn to the web hosts for help in secured, load balancing, storage, and databases just to name a few areas. All of the issues must be constantly managed. It has now become the trend to name these extra services as managed hosting.
This is the type of service that is normally in demand by dynamic driven web pages and the commerce sites that are really busy. Usually in a new site starting out there are no funds to hire a server administrator. So now these managed services come along with everything required to do the job.
The standard for most companies now a days to is to use the services of representative for dedicated service. It keeps the client base very small. Basically what this comes down to is technology within the control panel. Sites can be set up and easily maintained by the new administrator. Its puts an end to the complicated commands that had to appear at the prompt line. The new method is simply point and click.
Of course with this new managed hosting additional services are being added and offered all the time. Any service the hosting company is promoting is fully covered with service and performance agreements. You can now obtain services such as high availability, database management and applications. If load balancing has been a problem for you in the past it won’t be with this managed hosting service.
