Many of our customers who have dedicated servers or managed hosting have had to go through the difficult process of deciding whether to try and deploy their server internally and as a additional responsibility for their existing staff, or whether to outsource it to specialist companies like us for whom it is our core business.

Whilst, on the face of it, hosting your server in your own building may seem the easier option, it is worth looking at all the things that we provide as part of our package for a dedicated server, which a non-specialist business won’t:-

• Uninterruptible power supply
• Diesel generators
• Spark detection
• Fire suppression
• Water detection
• Hosting-optimised network
• Multiple, redundant internet links
• 24/7 available 2^nd and 3^rd line technical engineers
• Physical security
• Multi-layered network security

The largest costs to our business are the network, the power and (last but certainly not least!) the people. So, when you’re in the market looking for dedicated servers or colocation or managed hosting,  or you’re contemplating doing it yourself, consider how much is involved in doing it the right way first.