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Be careful with the companies that are promising unlimited bandwidth because the web hosting providers who promises unlimited bandwidth seem to be disappeared, especially in dedicated servers business. A quick Google search will show some providers who are promising unlimited bandwidth for dedicated servers at very cheap prices.  Usually they do not promise unlimited bandwidth but high bandwidth. Even though it is true that bandwidth prices has gone down in couple of last years but you can’t bargain for this service.  Most of the amounts you pay for dedicated servers goes to bandwidth.

If you are hosting anything more than a small website based on HTML and after introducing images and flash, the size of each page will be around 80 to 100KB and if you have only got the speed of 1.25 megabytes per sec. that will translate to only about 12 connections at a time and page may begin to slow down.  Practically, you could do this twice without any complain or even three times. People are used to slower loading speed and everyone know this but if your site grows more than your expectation that option will not work.

Web hosting companies cant afford to give lots of bandwidth for cheap. So beware of the promises of unlimited bandwidth.

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What happens though when all of that happiness is suddenly washed down the drain and you realize that your cheap dedicated servers are not as cheap as they were promised to be? Now the smiling face of that pretty girl or guy looks sinister as you realize that you have been had.

How unfortunate! Now you need to contact the company and ask for some form of compensation. (And good luck on that, specially if you have to deal with customer support via email!) Yes, all of this could have been avoided if you read the fine print of the contract…which of course the company goes out of its way to shrink on the actual website.

This article will help you to understand the method behind cheap pricing. First, try and understand that no matter what the company states on their wonderfully crafted website, they are looking for a solid cash investment from you. They don’t want a few dollars by the month, despite whatever the laughing guy or girl suggest on the site’s homepage. They actually want a figure that should be close to £50 to do business with you, or maybe more, if they can get it. Therefore, when you click on more information you will notice that the original three or four pounds plan they promised is only available if you pay in advance for the year.

Some companies extend this prepay period out to a few years or even several years. One company offers a ten-year contract advertising with prices at just £2-3 a month. So, if you prepay for a few years in advance, then your lump sum would equal just a few pounds a month. Clever, huh? That may not look like a good deal now, considering you now have to spend your grocery money this week on a web hosting provider.

Here’s another trick to look out for. Let’s say you want to pay only by the year, or maybe, even at intervals of three or six months. The web hosting company is okay with this…but now is ordering you to pay a setup fee which brings your grand total to…you guessed it, £50! Simple lesson learned: when it’s time to decide on a web hosting package, look for the one that is not having any set up fees and that you can pay on a short-term basis.

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A server is a hard drive where electronic files are stored. A dedicated server is a hard drive that is been dedicated to a particular person or an entire company, or a specific function within a company such as an email server.

Small companies and even the freelancers who work from home office can also use regular desk top computer with a good amount of gigs as a server from which other computers run. This type of server runs on the same concept and accomplishes the same tasks that larger, off site, servers can accomplish.

Dedicated servers are commonly used by company’s for their website. Usually lots of small companies use off site servers and hosting companies on which they build their websites and blogs. These companies that own the servers are just providing the storage space for the web pages, just like Hotmail, who provides off site storage space for emails.

These companies usually gives the guarantee at a certain amount of “up time” and they will provide further stats on the maximum amount of bandwidth a company is allowed with the price paid for the web hosting services provided. The bandwidth refers to how active your web site is; if you have pretty good amount of traffic that’s great for you, but it may cause problems with your web hosting company/off site server if they will not be able to handle the overload.

A lot of times an individual or small company that is not comfortable with building a website from scratch, or not needing a site that includes a lot of bells and whistles like flash, video, or even shopping carts, usually go for an online source that allows them to build a website using a user friendly template format.

While using this type of web service, the servers are located at, and run and owned by the company that you are building your website at. For example, some web portals like Yahoo and MSN offers user friendly templates and dedicated server hosting.

As time passes and a company grows, it’s quite common to have their web hosting servers customized and brought in house. This requires a much higher level of technical expertise since owning your own server means taking the responsibility for all updates, changes, migrations, and problems that need to be addressed.

To keep your web hosting server off site where you have a higher level of security all around. A web hosting company already has different types of security in place against hackers, viruses, and even “acts of God” such as building fires, floods, tornadoes, etc.

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As we all know that  Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platform has been accepted in the marketplace in pretty small time, it is pretty much worthwhile to compare Hyper-V virtual dedicated servers with traditional dedicated servers. These options keeps on changing in terms of managed limitations, connectivity and their uses.

A dedicated server is a physical server that can be rented from a managed service provider and it also includes a powerful hardware, related server software, bandwidth, connection to the internet and IP connectivity for a remote access. A dedicated server can be configured and operated by the company itself, and most of all it saves costs in terms of staffing, security, bandwidth and administration of the network. It is pretty much flexible for customization than shared hosting as the  the user is having a complete control over the hardware and operating system.

Actually Hyper-V Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) are the software implementations of dedicated servers that are implemented by using the powerful virtualization platform from Microsoft called Hyper-V.  VDS is pretty much familier with the name VPS (Virtual Private Server). This system gives all the benefits that a client get from dedicated server but at a pretty much cost effective priec. In a very short time the physical server is divided into multiple virtual servers or virtual machines that can be configured to share the desire level of server resources.

To understand what a VPS Hosting or VDS Hosting is, i have referred to the Wikipedia explanation – “A virtual private server is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.”

For regular use, the end user can treat the VDS just like a regular dedicated server. A Hyper-V Virtual Dedicated Server provides a workable solution for the client at pretty lowest cost, that is above $50 per month.

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