Dedicated Server Rental

When purchasing a dedicated server, you are never buying the right to own it – in reality you are only purchasing the right to rent the server for a specified amount of time which in most cases is a month, although you can also rent dedicated servers for quarters, halves and even a whole year in some cases. The same can be applied to any form of web hosting, in the fact that you are only paying for the right to rent on your web space and not to actually own it out right. In reality, there isn’t really any form of dedicated web hosting in which you are paying for the right to own the product outright.

When paying a dedicated server rental fee, you are paying to cover the cost of the dedicated server itself, the space that you are taking up within your web hosting provider’s rack or data centre as well as the bandwidth and electricity that your dedicated server will be using up. If specified during the checkout process, you will also be paying for the cost of a control panel or other piece of control software for your dedicated server if needed; examples of control panels that are available for dedicated servers include Plesk and cPanel.

Depending on the operating system have you have chosen, you may also have the cost of the operating system included in your dedicated server rental fee. An operating system is needed on your dedicated server to allow it to run correctly; the main purpose of an operating system is to receive all the requests from programs that are installed on it, and to route those requests to the appropriate locations. If you have chosen a Linux distribution as your server operating system, then the likelihood is that this won’t increase your dedicated server rental fee, since most Linux distributions are free; however, if you have chosen a Windows operating system as your server operating system, then this may increase your dedicated server rental fee since Windows licensing can cost quite a bit.

Dedicated servers can be used for a variety of services, since the server is yours meaning that you have sole use over the server’s entire resources. In some cases, your web hosting provider may be able to provide you with extras that can be included within your dedicated server rental fee; for example, this could include a streaming media server to enable you to broadcast live content over the internet, or a premium database server such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition to allow you to store all your database records in one central location.

Dedicated servers provide better performance at all levels than any other type of web hosting service. This means that your classic ASP and ASP.NET web applications that utilize a Microsoft SQL Server database backend will run much better on a dedicated server with Microsoft Windows Server installed than on a standard Windows shared web hosting package. The same can be applied to your PHP applications that have a MySQL database backend; they will function better on a dedicated server running Windows or Linux since there are no other users to hog your server resources.

Prices for dedicated servers are now coming down, meaning that you can get more dedicated server for your money. Bandwidth allowances have also risen, meaning that you can now get a lot more bandwidth included within your dedicated server rental fee. Some web hosting providers are also purchasing Microsoft Windows licenses in bulk now, meaning that the cost of a Windows dedicated server has also risen; you will now find that you can have the cost of a Microsoft Windows license included in within your dedicated server rental fee.

These days it isn’t uncommon for individuals and businesses alike to have dedicated servers in order for them to host their websites and web services publicly. Dedicated server rental fees have been reduced by the lower cost of large assignments of bandwidth, meaning that more or less anyone can now afford the basic dedicated server monthly rental fee. Another form of dedicated hosting which involves the rental of rack space and bandwidth is collocation web hosting; however, with collocation web hosting you own the physical server that you are hosting.