Dedicated Servers
Standard hosting uses virtual servers on shared physical servers. If additional performance or security is required then dedicated hosting is the answer. This is where one server holds one website only. Dedicated hosting is considerably more expensive than standard hosting but has many advantages.
We have four standard packages but others are available.
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| System | Dual Core | Quad Core | Dual Core | Quad Core |
| Processor | Xeon 2.33GHz | Xeon 2.5GHz | Xeon 2.33GHz | Xeon 2.5GHz |
| Memory (RAM) | 2GB | 4GB | 2GB | 4GB |
| Hard Drive | 160GB (2xHDD RAID-1) SATA | 250GB (2xHDD RAID-1) SATA | 160GB (2xHDD RAID-1) SATA | 250GB (2xHDD RAID-1) SATA |
| Operating System | Ubuntu or CentOS | Ubuntu or CentOS | Windows Web Server 2008 | Windows Web Server 2008 |
| Webserver | Apache | Apache | IIS7 | IIS7 |
| Programming | PHP, Perl & Python | PHP, Perl & Python | ASP, ASP.NET, .NET Framework | ASP, ASP.NET, .NET Framework |
| Databases | MySQL | MySQL | MS SQL Express | MS SQL Express |
| Price (per month ex VAT) | £120 | £195 | £135 | £210 |
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