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Why cheap VPS hosting costs you more money

The most effective mindset when shopping for VPS hosting, is to first realize it’s importance. It’s uncommon to spend months or years doing research to find the best fit. Although what can be more important to the health of your web based business than the best VPS hosting? The cost of a hasty decision when choosing a VPS host, can be incalculable. Common outcomes from choosing the wrong host: Your customers will lose trust in you Loss of business revenue Loss of important data These are usually a result of a major problem at the hosting provider. For example, when for some strange...
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The Best Arguments For Virtual Private Hosting VS Colo

We recently helped a customer in making the the best decision for their needs. They are operate charter schools in 65 locations today. They’re technical aspirations are progressive but cost conscious. To present them with the best solutions, we looked at what other vendors were quoting them and talked about what they wanted. Their goals were largely based on having the servers they needed – powered up somewhere. Their needs were basic at this stage “having X number of servers online”. We developed a hardware (bare metal) only strategy that echoed other quotes they were given. We weren’t the cheapest. We kept working...
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The Best Kept Secrets About Cloud Hosting

At Hostek, we love technology. We don’t specifically sell Cloud Services, but use them to provide a reliable hosting platform. There’s Cloud architecture in our ecosystem, the same kind used by 100% of fortune 100 companies. There are many costs involved in creating an environment that is flexible & self healing. The same parts exist in every cloud. Depending on the hosting provider you use, those parts may be a different brand, quality or complexity. Cloud Hosting isn’t designed to save small businesses lots of money, paying by the hour. The greatest benefit of Cloud hosting for small business is NOT the ability to turn more servers...
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3 Reasons Why Smart People Choose Hosting vs Colocation

Owning and operating your own servers can be attractive. Why? The number one reason is cost. Once you pay off the servers needed for hosting, the only thing you’re paying for is colocation fees. But this is deceptive, and can cost you more than hosting over time. If you decided to colocate your servers, you’ll pay for: Hardware Colocation Parts replacement (after 3 years on average but maybe sooner) Inhouse (time) or Outsourced Expertise We are not saying that in all cases hosting is better than colocation. Because not all hosting is equal. A quality host will also provide extra hosting...
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