The Future of Hosting of the near future is moving to dedicated hosting, and that movement will accelerate over the near future.
The need for a strong online presence is easy to justify for most businesses. However the webpages have not been designed or updated in recent years as quickly as they should have been. With the buying public moving to the internet and customer choices being shopped more and more from the internet, websites are a greater priority than ever.
As webpages are created and improved the hosting services are also being scrutinized. Should a company stay in shared hosting also known as virtual hosting – or should the company switch to dedicated hosting.
Dedicated hosting can be crucial to profit margins, especially as a website becomes a major source of revenue. Dedicated hosting has traditionally been delivered by an array of providers, but it is now recognized that dedicated hosting is a specialisation that requires special skills to deliver the required types of hosting product with consistency and stability.
Demand for dedicated hosting is accelerating. Until recently getting a dedicated hosting service account has involved a slow and complex process for both the ISP and the customer. Discussion of hardware, burn testing, server OS configuration, application configuration, IDC installation and connectivity configuration were all preliminary.
The process had been time consuming and expensive for all parties concerned. The new virtualization technology is now set to deliver dedicated hosting in a way that not only eliminates most of the complexity and brings many additional virtualised hosting benefits that have not existed prviously. Servers can offer scalable, profitable and fast delivery of premium dedicated hosting services now.
It eliminates hardware, hardware drivers and hardware upgrades for the customer. In addition it delivers higher levels of availability and allows for clones of production environments to be created for seamless development.
As either a service provider or a customer, it’s important to understand that many different types of server virtualisation exist – this brings different prices, levels of resource control and base-OS independence.
Of all the current crop of server virtualisation technology, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 seems to lead the market in these criteria and combines the highest resource control with elimination of hardware drivers. Infrastructure 3 also allows intelligent redistribution of VMs from any failed physical servers to the remaining healthy servers.
Server virtualisation technology is will expand its market share as virtualised hosting service providers and customers alike realise the possibilities available for premium virtualised hosting.