If you have determined that dedicated web hosting is the most beneficial selection for your site - you will be able to set it up any way you want and you will not be portioning it out with anybody else - the following question you want to resolve is whether you want to lease one or purchase one. Dedicated hosting signifies that you are leasing a server from an internet hosting company. Your additional option is to purchase your own web server and pay to have it housed by a hosting company on their premises. This is best-known as colocated hosting.

Colocated hosting provides all the equivalent rewards as dedicated web hosting - you have supreme restraint of your web server. The additional welfare you receive with colocated web hosting is a more modest monthly price. Since you have purchased the dedicated server, you are not paying to lease the server; you are simply paying the web host to house your server on their premises. Your start up investment will evidently be greater but if you purchase a superior dedicated server, the prices will be softer when you average it out across a longer time period.

The cost will depend upon the room your web server occupies. Data centres usually house the web servers in racks, which are then put up in cabinets. A cabinet is usually forty rack units in height - all rack units are 1.75'. Web servers are calculated in rack units - 1U is 1.75'. The average sizes for web servers are 1, 2 and 4U, so the costs will hinge upon the amount of units your web server employs.

The additional element in the cost of colocated hosting will be is how much bandwidth you will require. Since your web server is coupled to the internet via the data centre, your cost will hinge upon how data you're transferring.

With colocation, you are in complete control of the hardware which successively intends you are accountable for preserving in the event of any troubles. If the hard drive breaks or a processor malfunctions, you are the one that will be required to arrange for it to be substituted. With a dedicated host, the hosting company is accountable for these matters so they will attend to any troubles that come up.

With colocated web servers you are also accountable for any software system licensing costs, like the OS and any server-based software system you require. Dedicated web hosts generally include the required software system for you to operate your web server. Finally, you want to determine whether the extra cost of dedicated web hosting is meriting of your time and initial investment savings likened to colocated hosting.