Dear Group,
As I read through this board and I a little confused about what exactly is the difference between managed hosting and dedicated hosting? Can someone explain? With both you are leasing your own server are you not?
Thanx,
bradley

Dedicated and Managed servers are very similar. A hosting company will provide you a server, OS, a stable network and datacenter environment.

The major difference is that with a dedicated server, 99% of the time you are on your own and are responsible of all administration.

With a managed server, the host helps out with the server's admin tasks (set-up, security updates, etc.). Make sure you ask the provider what is included in their managed server as not all managed services are equal.

Hope that helps!

Greetings:

"As I read through this board and I a little confused about what exactly is the difference between managed hosting and dedicated hosting? Can someone explain? With both you are leasing your own server are you not?"

Very good questions. We've been doing research on this question for some time.

"Managed hosting" is the latest buzz words for 2001 and 2002. Every hosting company now provides managed hosting.

And even compared to those that do not use the words, "managed hosting" the differences can be non-existent.

Most dedicated server companies (managed and unmanaged) will manage their network infrastructure and the actual hardware for the server.

Managed hosting may do the above and nothing more depending on the provider. They may add in managing the operating system.

This can range from just doing patches to upgrading the kernel in addition to patches.

Please note that most patch support offered by managed hosting companies is only for the os and potentially only for the os and applications they install.

It is extremely rate for managed hosting providers to actually include server administration, database administration, and managed firewalls (including intustion detection system monitoring and handling).

Some will offer blocks of time for server administration; but it is all reactive.

For example, there is a hot threat on WHT dealing with AIT on how a client had 450 MB of mySQL log files and was charged for exessive disk space.

Proactive server administration would see the disk space was trending up, check what was taking up space, and work with the client to determine what options would work best for their needs.

Reactive is waiting for the client to ask for help after a problem has already occured.

Thank you.