Managed Hosting

Managed hosting is one of several options for businesses with mission-critical or high-traffic websites. Whether you rely on your website for communication between employees, vendors and customers or use it to sell products, any interruption in service hurts your bottom line. You simply must have your website up and running round-the-clock. Before managed server hosting, businesses with high-traffic websites had to either buy the expensive hardware and software needed to operate their own servers or "rent" a server from a host and administer it themselves (dedicated hosting). A third option was to rent space on a server also being used to host other websites (virtual dedicated hosting). Few businesses have the financial means to buy and operate their own server hardware and software. Those that rent dedicated servers from hosting providers must be willing to pay salaries and benefits to a trained staff to run them. Virtual dedicated hosting has a down side as well. If, by chance, one of the companies sharing your server experiences a sudden spike in website traffic, your website may slow down or stop working altogether. A managed dedicated server is similar to a dedicated server in that you don't have to share bandwidth with other companies – you get the whole server all to yourself. This eliminates the possibility that a surge in traffic to someone else's website will slow load times or restrict website access for your customers. One big difference between managed hosting and dedicated hosting is cost. While dedicated hosting requires you to have trained IT personnel on-site to monitor and maintain your server, managed hosting does not. With managed hosting, the hosting provider is responsible for paying the salaries of experts to set up and run your server. You get all the power and control of a dedicated server, for less than it would cost you to pay salary and benefits for an IT professional. You also enjoy better security with a managed server than you might be able to afford on your own. This goes beyond just state-of-the-art firewalls and security software. Electricity runs into all Go Daddy data centers through two distinct paths – in case one power source fails for any reason, the other will keep your website running. Should fire or natural disaster strike your corporate headquarters, your website will continue to run without interruption. Even power outages near the server location won't shut it down, as reputable hosts like Go Daddy operate back-up generators to keep hosted sites operational no matter what. And all Go Daddy data centers are equipped with state-of-the-art alarm systems and monitored by real, live human beings round the clock, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. For many companies, managed hosting is the perfect hosting solution. It gives you power and control, without requiring you to hire hosting experts. In this way it maximizes profit, enabling you to focus your time and resources on your customers rather than on running your website.