Advantages of Dedicated Servers
LuxSci has recently expanded its Dedicated Server offerings to now include many extremely scalable and cost effective choices for our customers.
A customer with Dedicated Server(s) has one or more servers, managed by LuxSci, whose sole purpose is to provide email, web hosting, and other services to that customer specifically. This is contrasted with “Shared Servers” where many customers share the resources of the same servers.
Why Go Dedicated?
Many customers prefer Dedicated Servers to shared hosting for a variety of reasons, including cost and security. The list below highlights areas you may want to consider before making a purchase decision.
| More Support Options: | In a dedicated environment, customers can choose between several different support options:
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| A Better SLA: | The Service Level Agreement for all dedicated servers is better than that for shared hosting. While shared hosting guarentees 99.99% uptime, dedicated environments guarantee 100% network uptime, 100% power and HVAC uptime, and a very short hardware replacement time window. |
| No Sharing= More for You: |
Since no other LuxSci customers will be using your dedicated servers:
While LuxSci goes to great lengths to ensure that the actions of one customer do not affect other customers in a shared environment; by its vary nature, there is only so much that can be done to defend against customer mistakes, ignorance, or malicious actions. By the time they are detected and dealt with in a shared environment, it is possible that the culprit’s actions may have affected other customers, even if only marginally or for a short time. |
| More Privacy: | If no other customers have access to your server, then any data on that server is safer than on a shared system. No matter what software safeguards are in place to segregate the data of shared customers, a physical separation is always better. |
| Most Services Included: | In a dedicated environment, all users can have access to all standard LuxSci services (POP, IMAP, WebMail, SMTP, SecureLine, and WebAides) without any per-user license fees. They are all included. |
| Lots of Users: | In a dedicated environment, you can have lots and lots of users for relatively little cost since there are no per-user license fees for standard services. |
| Lots of Disk Space: | Disk Space is much less expensive in a dedicated environment — you order a server with enough space and speed for your needs (even if this is in the 1000s of GB). The cost of disks are included; disk space is no longer a “metered” quantity. |
| Lots of Web Sites: | An unlimited number of web sites is included. |
| Lots of Databases: | An unlimited number of MySQL databases is included. |
| Lots of Bandwidth: | Bandwidth is much less expensive in a dedicated environment — you order a server for your needs (1000+GB/mo is included with basic dedicated servers). The cost of the bandwidth is included, unless you need even more. |
| Dedicated WebMail: | If you have many users, your server will also include Secure Private Labeled Dedicated WebMail for your users’s access to their email and services (instead of using WebMail on shared WebMail servers). |
Low Price. High Quality.
After considering the factors above, take a look at our new pricing model. There are three types of dedicated servers available — Cloud Servers in the Rackspace Server Cloud, Basic Dedicated Servers from ServerBeach, and Premium Dedicated Servers from Rackspace. The best server for you depends upon your individual requirements.
Dedicated servers start as low as:
- $200/mo for Dedicated High Volume Outbound Email Servers
- $179/mo for Dedicated Web Hosting Servers
- $179/mo for Dedicated Inbound Email Processing or Filtering Servers
- $350/mo for Dedicated Email + Web Hosting + WebMail servers
The price increases as you add on features and capacity to the servers; however, you can often host many more users and use lots more disk space in a way that is much more cost effective than shared hosting.
Dedicated Hosting is often a better choice for our customers and is increasingly the recommended LuxSci solution. As such, we encourage customers to choose dedicated solutions over shared when it is optimal.
Please contact Sales for an assessment of your hosting vs. dedicated options.
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