Many companies now have websites as a key element in their overall marketing strategy. Most small- and medium-sized businesses typically use shared or virtual hosting environments, where they are sharing one computer server with many other companies’ websites and e-mail services. With website hosting costs typically less than $100 a month and in many cases, less than $50 or even as low as $25 a month, this is a very cost-effective solution for many companies.
However, with the cost of computer hardware and peripherals continuing to become less expensive, computer server prices have also dropped significantly, allowing for many companies to now arrange to have their own dedicated server for hosting their website, e-mail and other business software applications.
Why would a dedicated server be a better or more cost-effective solution? In a shared hosting environment a single server can have as many as 50, 100 or more websites running on it. If just one of those websites is compromised or something installed on another client’s web hosting space affects the server, all clients on that same server are also affected.
Many of the company’s website hosting customers have already made the switch from shared environments to their own dedicated servers. Customers that have more than one website have even saved money by using a dedicated server to host their multiple sites.
For example, one client went from one to five websites over a period of time, all on shared servers. By the time the most recent site was launched, the client was paying hosting fees for five separate sites on shared servers. At that point, the fees were about the same as for a dedicated server, so it made sense for the client to switch. Now, the client has his own secure environment for all of his sites, and room to add more sites and even back-ups.
Depending on the size and traffic load of the sites, an average small- to medium-sized business could host five, 10 or even more sites on a single dedicated server, at the same price or less that keeping the sites on shared servers.
Santa Clarita Web Services offers dedicated server options starting at only $105 per month, giving clients the security, safety and peace of mind of having control of their own virtual environment and at a very cost-effective price.
For an evaluation of your current hosting plan and whether a dedicated server makes sense for your business, contact Santa Clarita Web Services at 661-799-9100 or via e-mail at support@escv.com.