Big website owners usually go for dedicated servers. There are many reasons to choose dedicated hosting. First of all an entire server is used to host one website. Your website doesn’t share space and bandwidth with other websites. Your website has all the disk space and bandwidth available to itself. That means it can handle any major traffic. Also because there is only one website on the server, there is no threat from other websites running some malicious code which is usually a major reason for downtime in shared web hosting environment. Also server is not overused so there is no problem with cpu usage and server running slow. You are in full control of your server and website.

Usually dedicated servers hosting comes in two ways – managed and unmanaged. As is clear from the naming itself, Managed dedicated server hosting means that the web hosting provider company manages your dedicated server. They install operating system, they install scripts, websites, anti-virus, software, firewall, make back-ups etc and other things to keep server and website secure. This obviously costs much more than unmanaged dedicated servers. In plans with unmanaged dedicated servers, they only do hardware maintenance and install operating system. The other things crucial for security and websites, you must do yourself.

To choose between managed and unmanaged dedicated server hosting, you should decide whether you’ll be able to manage your server own your own or not. Better to start with managed dedicated hosting and once you feel comfortable. switch to unmanaged dedicated hosting.