Colotrader - Managed Web Hosting Information

Managed Hosting offers small and large business owners a fast, powerful, reliable and professionally maintained Web presence. Managed Hosting also provides seemless and almost limitless expansion at a moments notice. Your managed Hosting solution may also include the following benefits:

• you are the only client on the server
  
• upgrade capacity is practically unlimited
  
• additional drives and memory can be added
  
• ability to cluster servers together when your web site requires additional resources
  
• power guarantee and backup ensure that your data is safeguarded from faulty hard drives and power failure
  
• Little or no technical expertise is required.

Managed Hosting is a server owned and managed by the Colocation Provider. Managed hosting services will normally include server processes, hardware monitoring, data backup and at times even operating system level management.

Managed Hosting services will also include a host of other services covered by the individual provider support agreement. Server colocation will include rack space and bandwidth at the data center, but you are responsible for all other aspects of your servers. Certain Managed Hosting services will many times be offered as 'add-on' services for an additional cost.

Managed Hosting can substantially reduce capital purchases otherwise required to implement and manage an in-house solution. The cost of providing and maintaining the physical infrastructure is shared amongst many customers and allows you to realize significant savings over the cost of expanding and maintaining your own data centre services.

Managed Hosting is for customers who prefer to have their web host provider maintain and monitor their dedicated servers, operating system and all supported applications. Companies or individuals who do not have the required system administration resources on-staff, or don't have the expertise or time to manage it commonly choose managed hosting.

Managed Hosting is also an excellent solution for mid to high level companies needing to host high-traffic, complicated e-commerce, dynamic, application intensive and/or database driven websites. Managed hosting providers will normally offer add-on management services for companies requiring security, firewalls, large disk storage space, reporting, monitoring, managed load balancing, security, storage and databases.