Shared Hosting (also known as Web Hosting) is the Public Bus of the hosting industry. You will get to where you need to go, but the selected route might not be your ideal path. Plus, you will have to make all the stops along the way to pick up other riders. Shared Hosting has you share the overall resource of a server with a large number of clients. Since you share the server, you share the costs. Shared Hosting is ideal for low maintenance sites that don’t except high unmanageable traffic.

Dedicated Hosting would be equivalent owning your own Car. You are able to get to Point A to Point B at your convenience. However, you are also responsible for gas and maintenance. Dedicated servers provide you all the resources of a server to use at your discretion. However, you are also responsible for all the maintenance and cost associated with ownership. Dedicated Hosting is ideal for businesses that need to be able to control and fully customize their servers to meet the demands of this company.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) would be the Vanpool in this analogy. With a vanpool, a select number of participants share all the resource and cost of the van. This allows for efficient transportation without the inconvenience of a method like a bus. VPS is often the step between Shared and Dedicated Hosting because it offers many of the benefits of Dedicated without the limitations of Shared Hosting.

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Starting in 1969 as a yet-to-be-named operating system developed by a handful of AT&T employees for a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer. During the 70s and 80s, the academic circles had their influence on Unix and eventually led to the BSD variant of the OS originating from UC, Berkeley. Designed to be portable with multi-tasking and multi-user capabilities, there are a few concepts that characterize a Unix system like plain text data storage, a hierarchical file syste, and a large number of software tools. Together, these concepts are dubbed Unix Philosophy.

With servers and workstations and their operating systems becoming more and more complicated, it’s interesting to go back and see how it all started with something so (relatively) simple. For a complete 40-year timeline of Unix, please visit this article.

*Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification are qualified to use the UNIX trademark; others are called Unix system-like or Unix-like.

For many companies it makes sense to pay for a third party company to handle their website for them.  Originally that would involve paying one company to design, code, and maintain the software, and then another company to host a server in a data center and provide internet connectivity, whilst paying for a consultant or staff member to support the servers.

With budgets being tightened, its beginning to make less sense to use multiple companies when a single one could either suffice or surpass the level of service, with the additional benefits of full 24×7 support and also no longer having to be an umpire to a blame game with each side denying their area of responsibility is the cause of any failures.

The term “Managed Hosting” covers a multitude of different levels of support and types of solution with different kinds of support infrastructure required to provide, and depending on which company you choose, Managed can mean as little as “we’ll reboot it for you”.
At the normal lowest level you will get a managed service where the customer leases a server from the hosting company with their choice of base environment pre-installed, along with a connectivity solution.   The only support offered might be basic monitoring pings and possibly some port monitoring, along with some patch management, with the host providing on-site staff 24×7 to be able to carry out any reboots or service restarts as necessary.

At the highest level you have a “fully managed hosting”, or “managed application” where everything from the hardware right down to the code running the site, the connectivity and the hosting is handled by one company.  From the customers perspective they end up with little or no involvement in hardware and software decisions, and they’re often looking for someone to handle their application, be it internet or intranet, though such a service will come at a premium!

Here at Superb we don’t like to put customers in boxes, and we aim to offer a solution tailored to their needs.  Superb’s Professional Services Division comprise of experienced, certified engineers focused on the proactive server management of Managed Hosting customers.  Managed services include the management of firewall, backup using R1Soft CDP, OS Hardening, Advanced Port Monitoring, among others. We hope that by doing so our customers will find themselves in a position to take advantage of all the internet can offer to their business.

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