Dedicated Servers
Finding a place to host and building a website are two different things. If you have a growing website, you will eventually have to turn to your web hosting provider and ask for upgrade options to a dedicated server or move on.
 
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| Rank | Webhost | Website | Review | Price | Disk Space | Bandwidth |
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| 1 | iPowerWeb | Visit | Read | $129.00 | 80 GB | 500 GB |
| 2 | midPhase | Visit | Read | $199.00 | 250 GB | 10,000 GB |
| 3 | 1&1 Internet | Visit | Read | $99.00 | 320 GB | 2,000 GB |
| 4 | Host Gator | Visit | Read | $174.00 | 80 GB | 1,500 GB |
| 5 | Lunarpages | Visit | Read | $99.00 | 80 GB | 1,000 GB |
| 6 | Go Daddy | Visit | Read | $71.99 | 120 GB | 500 GB |
| 7 | InMotion Hosting | Visit | Read | $199.95 | 160 GB | 1,500 GB |
| 8 | ServerPronto | Visit | Read | $29.95 | 40 GB | 200 GB |
| 9 | HostRocket | Visit | Read | $69.99 | 60 GB | 1,000 GB |
One can say that your web site can be small, but still take up the resources of a shared account or that your website is too large for the package that it rests on. Either or, you will have to figure out a way to upgrade to a better service plan. Actually, your web host should be smart enough to do this for you and should not need you to figure out that you are or are not using too many resources. On the contrary to common belief, just because you haven’t used all your storage space, does not mean that you are still within the limits of your package. You can have a web site a fraction of the size of you allotted storage and STILL use up resources (CPU/RAM). It’s better to know ahead of time before anything happens.
What you need to know about Dedicated Servers
As a website owner, there are just some things you should have a feeling about and that is about when an upgrade is needed. It’s either always in the back of your mind or you’re being too cheap because upgrading means spending more. The only option is to go up, so once you have cleared your way to the top of the shared hosting packages, ie. Virtual shared, Reseller shared, VPS shared, the only thing left is a dedicated server.
A dedicated server is like moving from an apartment to a house. Now YOU do the maintenance and there is no “Super”, so get prepared for self maintenance and development on a full environment where you can’t blame anyone else for a slow or non-functioning website. All administration is done on your end and the responsibility of the hosting company is to keep the network up and running. Everything else, is yours.