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It can be quite a hassle if you were to maintain your own server and host your site from it. For one, you will need to monitor the server 24/7. So you will have to dedicate a lot of time for that. Another hassle you will encounter is paying the electricity bill and subscription fee for an active broadband internet connection. Basically, you can give all these responsibility to others if you get a dedicated server. You won’t have to worry about paying and managing electricity and internet connection bill and also manage the server as the dedicated hosting provider will take care of it all.

Well, a dedicated hosting will be quite over the top if you have a fairly small site with some traffic. For these kind of sites, you can use virtual private servers which is basically an server divided into several virtual parts. They use some kind of software to allocate memory, CPU usage to a VPS.

If you have some time to dedicate into server management, you might want to get a Colocation Hosting. Colocation hosting means you will be renting a space where you will be able to place your server. With server colocation, you are buying a physical space. With this option, you will have to manage the server but every other thing will be done by the provider. You provide and manage the server, they will provide a space to place your server, get their data center, electricity, bandwidth and routers. Colocation hosting is the next best thing if you are willing to provide the server and manage it by yourself. If you don’t have much experience or can’t spend a lot of time managing the server or want to buy a server computer, dedicated hosting or a VPS is the best option.

With IntraHost, you can get all the things i mentioned, from a dedicated server to a colocation hosting. They provide service for Virtual Private Server and also provide application hosting if you need them. The price of all these service is very competitive and you will be satisfied with it. Colocation hosting at IntraHost costs £35 per month for the first three months of service. You don’t have to worry about electricity bills, data center or internet connection bills. Everything will be taken care of by IntraHost. All the data centers are located inside the United Kingdom so this should be best suitable for companies or webmasters who reside in the United Kingdom. Check out their site for more information.

Lots of webmasters and business are turning to vps hosting as it the the next best thing after dedicated server hosting. Dedicated Servers are a bit expensive and for a site that gets around 100k traffic per day, a VPS would do the job very well. The price of a virtual server depends on what specification you want. I almost moved to a VPS just a month ago after my shared hosting account got suspended for using too much CPU power and bandwidth. I was just about to move to a VPS and I was doing some research on it because I had never used a VPS before. Then I found a great deal on digital point for shared hosting and they helped me optimized my sites to use less CPU power. There has been no problem since then. Well if the similar problem occurs again, I will have no other choice but to move to a virtual private servers.

Some VPS companies charge a bit high price but this one is pretty cheap compared to some I found when I was looking for a VPS to shift my sites. This business web hosting uk solution provides VPS for a very affordable price. The lowest VPS they offer costs £15 per month. The specs for this VPS server is pretty low but it should satisfy people who don’t need that much dedicated memory and disk space. Well 7GB is enough for almost any sites. They provide three packages to suit all kinds of requirement, a value pack, extra and pro package.

VPS 2008 Value Pack:

• 128MB of dedicated RAM
• 7GB Disk Spave
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Root Access

VPS 2008 Extra Package:

• 512MB of dedicated RAM
• 10GB Disk Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Plesk 8.2 with the option to add 30 domains in total
• You can select these Linux OS: CentOS 5.0, Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, and Ubuntu 6.10 or even Windows but the price is a bit higher

VPS 2008 Pro Package:

• 768MB of dedicated RAM
• 20GB disk space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Gets the most CPU priority than other packages
• Plesk 8.2 with 100 add-on domains (Free)

All the servers on above packages comes with a 2 x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPUs and 4 x 146GB SCSI RAID 5. The value packages gets 1 IP address whereas the other two gets 2 IP addresses. One thing I don’t like about their packages is they only offer Plesk control panel. It uses a bit more RAM than other Control panels. Lxadmin is the best control panel for vps or any other option as it takes very little RAM. Cpanel is the most used control panel but it also takes a bit of the dedicated RAM but it is a lot better than Plesk. FYI, all the data-centers are located inside United Kingdom.