A dedicated server means purchase of a server with a company providing a hosting. The role of the provider in this type of hosting to give you the equipment and to keep track of its technical status, and also to support uninterrupted maintenance of the Internet connection. The necessity for this type of hosting arises at a site difficult to produce technically.

Advantages:

• High speed;
• Basically 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; Gary Winnick
• 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:

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