You may have heard of dedicated IP web hosting as a favorable feature from a web hosting company. What does this term mean? Dedicated IP web hosting (also known as static web hosting) allows the website owner to have his own IP address that can be used exclusively for an individual server space or domain. Therefore, a web user could access this web information by typing in the domain name or the IP address. Of course, IP web hosting features between different companies are not standardized.
What are the advantages of this type of hosting plan? Dedicated IP hosting is an ideal feature for large businesses or companies involved in e-commerce. This is because dedicated IP hosting offers enhanced security, and safety is of paramount concern in online sales. Other benefits for dedicated IP hosting include the filtering out of SPAM (a common grievance among users who rely on shared IP addresses) and greater flexibility. Dedicated IP hosting offers tools and extra options such as a private SSL certificate and anonymous FTP.
A secure IP address and dedicated IP web hosting helps to ensure that a user will have full control over the content, security and administration of their site. In addition, this enhanced level of complexity can help improve search engine results, which is very important to the success of an online business. Dedicated IP web hosting can be more expensive than other forms of web hosting, because of the advantages that it offers.
This is not the same definition of a dedicated web server, which is a server that is exclusive to one user and company. A low cost web hosting company may offer a server that shares a few different websites and IP addresses. However, a dedicated web server only holds one website and IP address. On the other hand, a company that offers a dedicated IP address gives the user an exclusive right to the address, meaning yours is the only site that will be affiliated with the IP or domain.
If security isn’t a big issue with your company (for instance, if you have a promotional or informational site) then you may have no need for a dedicated IP or static address. However, the more business you do online the more security features customers will expect from you. Dedicated IP addresses are usually not unreasonably expensive, and could be as low as $2-5 dollars per month.
Leon Belenky
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What's the difference between managing your own dedicated server and getting hosting service for one?
The pros and cons of having your own dedicated server to manage and the pros and cons of getting it from a dedicated hosting service? And what type of website would benefit for either of them?
If you run your own server you can do any downloads and upgrades, run whatever software you want. But YOU have to manage it and make it work. You’ll probably be running older software because you don’t want to take the whole system down, and possibly not get it up again, to upgrade. If you have a power outage you are completely offline and unavailable to your customers.
If you have a dedicated hosting service like GoDaddy, Google or Yahoo, they have hundreds of engineers and IT people constantly maintaining and managing the servers, with multiple backup systems and virtually unlimited bandwidth. Generally, you get current software, current technology, full time network staff, multi-location hosting, etc.
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I agree with David except he left out one thing, which is speed. If your server resides in your building, you’re going to be able to access it at the speed of your local network, often 100Mb or even 1Gb/s. If the server is hosted remotely, you access the files over the internet. a typical broadband internet connection is perhaps 1-5Mb/s. So in the best case scenario access to the hosted server is going to be 1/20th as fast as access to the local server.
If you’re only storing and retrieving very small files and you need to do it from many remote locations, hosted is a good option. If you’re mostly working from one location and use the server any more than a little bit, a local server is your best bet.
Hope this helps, and feel free to check out http://www.inovagent.com/file_servers for more information on local file servers.
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