This type of hosting provides independent purchase of the equipment and its accommodation at the provider's site. The role of the provider is to provide uninterrupted access to the Internet. The administration and support is carried out by you independently.

Advantages:

• High speed;
• Mainly, round-the-clock technical and service support;
• Warnings of technical works, short-term failures, the possibility of occurrence of problems of any character;
• The disk space can be as big as necessary and depends on the technical capabilites of the server;
• High-grade access to the server;
• Opportunity to configure any parameters of the system and applications;
• Opportunity to instal any software or reconfigure the system software;
• Deletion, addition, change of any files in system;
• The full control over processes, users and files in the system;
• Opportunity of to manage owned IP-address, ports, filters;
• Realization of non-standard solutions;
• Maintenance of security measures on the part of the provider;
• Service of a mail server through an interface as the manager, and office worker

Drawbacks:

• Very high cost;
• Necessity for an expert to service the server.