Is Unmanaged Dedicated Server Better Option for Hosting?

Usually it is observed that a large and complex site like eCommerce or business websites gets a huge amount of traffic and requires more security. A shared hosting fails to bear this traffic and to serve properly. It's the right opportunity to switch towards the dedicated web hosting. In Shared hosting a single server hosts a number of websites. All the websites rely to this server or share all the resources of the same server like disk space, bandwidth, OS etc. Dedicated server allows you to own the whole server without sharing its resources with someone else.

There are two types of dedicated server hosting which are managed and unmanaged dedicated servers. The main difference between them is that with an unmanaged dedicated server you have full control over the server. It is also known as self-managed dedicated server where you have to do all server activities like server configurations, OS and software installation, updates, error handling and other server related activities.

An unmanaged dedicated server is a best choice for the people who have good technical skill but if you don’t have strong technical knowledge of this field, you don’t need to be worry. A simple online search can help you to find some good tutorial to setup your server. By paying more amounts you can shift from unmanaged to managed server where you can take the help of a technical customer support team for server maintenance and other technical issues. But it is not a good practice to pay this extra money while you have enough knowledge about web hosting.

Advantages of Unmanaged Dedicated Server

There are various advantages of unmanaged dedicated server over managed server. If you have little bit knowledge about server management, it could be very beneficial for you.  

Flexibility:-

The main advantage of an unmanaged dedicated server hosting is that you have full control of the server regarding memory, data transfer capacity, server configuration, software installation and disk space. It gives you full root access that means you can modify and make updates in server as per your requirement. It enables us to install and manage different application, add-ons or plug-in scripts.

Cheap Price:-

Unmanaged dedicated server is less expensive when compared to managed server. If you enough technical knowledge about hosting then you can put your effort to setup, manage and handle server without the help of customer support of the hosting company. As in unmanaged server you don’t choose customer support thus you can save money which you have to pay for taking a help of the customer support team in managed hosting.

Security and Protection:-

It guarantees about security because with an unmanaged dedicated server you don’t share any server resources with some else and no one have right to access server except you. And if you use Linux for your server operating system it will be additional advantage in your security because it is hard for any virus or Trojans to affect Linux. 

When you are going to choose a suitable hosting service for your business or personal website, consider the above advantages of unmanaged dedicated server. It will be the best choice for larger business or other website that deals with sensitive information.  For the better performance with more security it is highly recommended to use unmanaged services.