Dedicated Hosting
UK Dedicated Server Industry Today
Most data centers, like WebHosting.UK.com offer dedicated servers in three different areas.
Economy-Standard-Heavy Load -
Here is what you usually get:
ECONOMY DEDICATED SERVER: Good for individuals or people who have outgrown hosting but don’t need anything too fancy.
£79 / Month Dedicated Server - usually last year’s model - these tend to be Dual Core Intel Core 2 Duo servers with hard drives tend to be 160 gigs or higher — often IDE since IDE was popular up until even 1 year ago. Of course- SATA is at least 20% faster.
STANDARD DEDICATED SERVER: Good for everything including game servers
£ 99 / Month Dedicated server- these are the bread and butter servers today- usually Dual Core Intel Xeon with 2.33 GHz 4 MB cache and 160 GIG SATA drive. The 3.2ghz servers today often have DDR2 ram which is 20% faster then DDR ram- so make sure you get DDR2 ram - at least 1 gig (1024mb) if possible when ordering a dedicated server.
HEAVY LOAD DEDICATED SERVER: - for people with heavy traffic or BIG data bases that get hit hard.
£119 to £ 260 / Month dedicated server— these are usually Quad Core Intel Xeon servers– tend to be 2.13ghz -2.4ghz in price -soon the Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon 205ghz Xeons will be about this price too.
These tend to be useful for MULTIPLE game servers and big data bases and heavy loads. I do not recommend the extra expense unless you KNOW you need it as DUAL XEON or DUAL CPU type dedicated servers are not necessarily faster unless you have huge loads - particularly loads like tons of sql queries or tons of visitors at once.
