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Why Managed Servers Are Better Than The Rest
Managed servers mean that the time involved and tasks necessary to keeping a server up and running are taken away from you and placed with an outside company. This is the preferred choice of hosting for many webmasters who are looking for security and a cost effective solution to having their websites hosted. It is very important that you choose the right type of hosting package for your needs when you are branching into the online world. Choosing shared hosting may not provide the right kind of security for you, or choosing to look after your own servers may just take up too much time or place you short on resources. Before choosing a hosting package, take five minutes to read this article if you are new to the world of websites and hosting.
Security, reliability and costs are the most important factors. First and foremost you don’t have to buy your own servers, the company you choose will provide them. As well as saving money on the hardware costs, you also avoid having to carry out tasks such as network monitoring or maintenance work.
For example, it can be quite time consuming and expensive for a small business to obtain, or develop, their staff to the required level of technical knowledge. Then those staff must carry out operating system updates and install security patches. They must also carry out regular file maintenance to ensure that there is plenty of free disk space and memory. They must monitor cpu usage too. They would need to troubleshoot any problems that arise, plan for disasters and implement disaster recovery planning or DRP. By the way, DRP is a complete subject in itself.
When you have a website, there are a number of technical reasons that the site could go offline. If you are not careful, your site could be down and you have no clue about it. Websites can lose custom and visitors can be driven away. The reality is that the online world is quite a fickle place – by that I mean that you only really have one chance to impress. If your site is slow to load or is down completely then the visitor is unlikely to return.
It is not worth taking any risks when it comes to networks and servers. By looking after this yourself you are placing a lot of responsibility on your own shoulders, so it is often more sensible to use the services of an outside company who are perfectly set up and equipped to provide this service well. They can monitor the network, carry out routine checks, ensure the hardware is working at its optimum performance and make any necessary changes as and when it is necessary. The result is a better performance from your website and minimal if any downtime. If you have more than one site or the website is critical to the health of your business or income in general then it is just not worth taking any chances.
Colocation is also a possibility and many large companies choose this kind of hosting package because of the ownership they have of the hardware. There are hardware costs involved however and regular checks need to be made to the data centre where the server is located. If you are a small company then the chances are high that you don’t have the resources for this. Constant network monitoring is another activity that involves time and money and again, this may not be readily available unless you are running a very large company. Managed servers are a much more suitable option for the vast majority of website owners and administrators and for this reason it is a popular option.
Managed dedicated hosting is very cost effective. Although the costs are slightly higher than those associated with shared hosting, the security more than makes up for this. Colocation goes even further in terms of security but there are much higher costs and more time is needed from you in order to have this type of hosting.
Managed servers are the perfect compromise between shared server hosting and hosting via a colocation data center. If you find a professional and experienced company then you can rest assured that your server management is second to none and your websites are in safe hands.
Clustering Articles For Greater Link Popularity (Page 1 of 2)
Clustering is a methodology used in many aspects in today’s societies. Typically, it is used to tie similar, but different systems, functions, or ideas together into a single structure while each piece of the structure stands on its own merits.
Strength in Numbers
The old axiom, “Strength in Numbers”, best defines the basis of clustering. People have been using clustering since the dawn of man by gathering in-groups to establish a community and utilize the strength of the community to overcome their adversaries. Likewise, they have used that strength to produce food, tools, clothing, and other material items for the use and survival of the community. Countries have even joined together for a common goal and defense. During disasters we often see countries and organizations joining together to help the people to overcome the destruction that has been caused. All of these groups and organizations working together have formed clusters for “Strength in Numbers”.
Today we can see many examples of clustering in the business world where companies join together to form larger and stronger companies. However, today we often term such actions as mergers and acquisitions. Never the less, such actions are still a methodology of clustering.
Cluster Marketing
When the techniques of clustering are applied to marketing methods the effects can produce some pleasing results. For years, Internet marketers have been applying the methodology of cluster marketing in their everyday marketing practices. When they launch a product they join forces with several key marketers to advertise the launch. Now, if you were to be a member of each marketers opt-in e-mail list, you would receive an e-mail about the same event from several marketers instead of just the originator of the launch. This act of joining together is the very basis of cluster marketing.
When marketers launch a product they don’t just use e-mail as their only medium of advertisement. In addition to e-mail they will use press releases, direct mail ads, webinars, Tele-seminars, etc. All of these different types of advertising are pointing to the one web site that the marketer wants you to visit. The one limitation to cluster marketing is that it is a one way methodology. Cluster marketing in itself can be very powerful if the advertiser wants to throw enough money into the advertising campaign to sustain it long enough for the general public to catch on to the message it’s trying to deliver.
With cluster marketing techniques you get one way links to your site as that is the direction the methodology is designed to support. The cluster methodology of marketing with the one way design has been very useful and powerful over the years as it emulates the human desire of pointing people in the right direction. Search engines have also found the one way links to be popular in ranking the popularity of a web site. Within the last few years we’ve even seen the introduction of three-way links and have found how popular they can be with search engines. However, setting up three-way links between various sites can be extremely time consuming unless you already own many sites where you can add all of the links required for three way linking.