Your company uses its web site and online applications more and more as an integral part of your business. Your sites are getting bigger, and more applications are being integrated into them. Or perhaps you have grown from one web site to five or more sites. No longer is your web site merely a brochure for your company, it has now become “mission critical” to your business operation.This is the stage when many companies outgrow shared web site hosting from a web site hosting company. Shared hosting is when your site resides along with other web sites on the web hosting’s companies servers. Those other sites belong to other cutomers of the web site host. With your own server, your sites can enjoy more hardware processing power, more hard drive space, and you can also install your own applications on the server that may or may not be provided by most web site hosting companies.

The decision is… do you rent (managed server), or do you buy (co-located server)? The vast majority of companies think that collocated is better becase THEY own the server. But in all actuality, managed hosting is safer, less expensive, and less of a liability for your company.

Here’s why.

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