5 Most Popular Companies that Offer Cheap and Reliable Dedicated Servers

Dedicated servers are the best choice for any hosting needs. They give you the most processing power and resources you can get, and the freedom to do whatever you want with them. You just can’t get the same flexibility from shared hosting and VPS servers (although the latter are pretty customizable, they severely lack in power).

Having a dedicated machine also means that your site will never be down because of resources overuse, it can only slow down if it’s heavily overloaded.

Dedicated servers used to be expensive, but nowadays they’re pretty cheap and affordable to almost everyone. They also come with guaranteed RAM, disk space and bandwidth; no one else can use them and you can’t run into the situation when you’re supposed to have 300GB, but filled only 100GB and your disk is full (which happens because of the data centers and hosting companies overselling their servers).

1and1. Having some of the best data centers in the world (two in the USA, one in the UK and two in Germany) and over 4 million clients, 1and1 have proven themselves to be a very good dedicated servers provider. They offer only top of the line Dell servers, with the most reliable hardware inside them. The prices are very cheap, especially for what comes with the server: hardware firewall, hardware RAID drives (software for the cheapest servers, but RAID nonetheless), dedicated separate FTP backup storage, custom automatic OS reinstallation panel, serial console access (access the server even when the network is down), a lot of monthly bandwidth on a 100Mbps connection and much more. The only drawback is the customer support for emergency hardware faults; they’re just too slow (it takes a few hours to a few days to replace something). But they do monitor and check the servers daily, so you shouldn’t have any problems.

Cari.net. This is one of the most popular dedicated servers and collocation hosting company among professional developers and business owners. They have a wide variety of offers, from basic servers for beginners to whole clusters and cloud virtual servers for big businesses and websites. Their prices are a bit higher than other companies, but that’s because they promise excellent and fast support for any software or hardware issues.

Rackspace. This is a well-known company in the hosting industry, with a lot of positive and negative reviews (although the negative ones are about their cheaper web hosting offers). They offer managed dedicated servers, where they configure everything on it and let you customize it, too. Like Cari.net, they have their own version of excellent support, called Fanatical Support, which promises fast response and quick fixes for any of your problems.

iWeb. A lot of people say that this is one of the best hosting companies ever, providing the best service and support for all of their packages, whether it’s shared hosting, VPS or dedicated servers. Their dedicated servers are also quite cheap (on the same level as 1and1), though the monthly bandwidth they offer is a bit too low. They also promise a 1 hour setup and activation of a new server, which is useful when you need one fast, and have a 100% uptime SLA, which is quite unique for hosting companies.

SingleHop. A relatively new company in the hosting industry, SingleHop already has 2 data centers at their disposal. They offer a large variety of dedicated servers, with unmanaged, semi-managed and managed options and a lot of helpful features like remote reboot and KVM over IP. Their main goal is to provide the best service ever. To do this, they hire only the best technicians, do not outsource anything, including customer support, and provide the best technical support possible, whether it’s for hardware of software issues. They’ve won many awards over the last 3 years and have proven themselves very reliable, often being featured on popular websites and magazines.

There are a lot of dedicated server providers available online. The above have proven themselves to be reliable and offer the best bang for the buck. If you go with any of them, chances are very high you won’t be disappointed.

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