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