Dedicated hosting is designed for businesses requiring more powerful solutions. It is when one server is completely dedicated to a single owner's web site.
Dedicated hosting is more reliable than shared because your business is not sharing a server with others, it is the ultimate in web hosting solutions and is used for extremely high resource usage web sites or the more advanced web hosting firm's looking to sell shared web hosting or reseller web hosting solutions.
Dedicated hosting is typically used for sites that need to handle a high level of traffic, need a higher degree of security, or sites that run their own customized software. It is the best way to host a website, however dedicated hosting doesn’t come cheaply.
Linux operating system has been the choice for dedicated server hosting solutions because of the security and stability it provides.
There are two kinds of dedicated hosting services: Managed and Unmanaged.
Managed dedicated hosting is for customers who prefer to have their web hosting provider maintain and monitor their dedicated web servers, operating system and all supported applications. Managed dedicated hosting is ideal for the following users: web designers, web developers, clients without prior server administration expertise, web designers and software developers who want to resell web hosting but leave the server management to only hosting. Our definition of managed dedicated hosting is an "everything included" philosophy. If you have a site which you want to have more items programmed into it, then managed dedicated hosting is the way to go.
Managed dedicated hosting is for customers who prefer to have their web hosting provider maintain and monitor their dedicated web servers, operating system and all supported applications. Managed dedicated Linux servers provide clients with the ideal environment to host mission critical web sites.
With Unmanaged dedicated hosting you control all the resources and applications and although it lowers the cost you need to take time for configuration and administration issues.