Charlottesville Web Hosting

The Benefits of Managed Hosting: Within the broad spectrum of hosting options—between co-location and dedicated servers, all the way to enterprise hosting and fully outsourced IT—managed services offer a viable alternative for companies interested in enhanced support/maintenance to keep their servers fully optimized. The levels of management and server support will differ, sometimes widely, from host to host. For those companies without server administration resources or expertise, or those without a significant amount of time to maintain servers, managed solutions can free up the time and resources of an in-house IT organization to maintain full control over the operating system and manage applications. Managed services do cost more than unmanaged. However, when you factor in the personnel costs to perform updates, security monitoring, etc., fully or semi-managed services may actually cost less.

Advantages of Managed Server Hosting include:
Technology upgrades: There’s no need to invest up front in OS, management software, dedicated staff, installation of high-speed connectivity, etc. The managed hosting service provides this infrastructure and charges only a monthly fee.

Support: Hosts manage all support functions for servers and control panel updates. This includes server monitoring, hardware repairs, troubleshooting network issues, and backup power supplies for servers. Hosts also provide bandwidth and connectivity to the internet. Most web hosts also offer performance guarantees and SLAs.