4 Reasons Why You Should Opt For a Managed Server

Are you noticing that more and more of the world is moving online? I mean companies that had offices 5 years ago are doing away with them. Do you run and own your own company and have never met any of your staff? Telecommuting is here to stay. With a shift in the way that we all know so well, from software and operating systems on our computers, to ‘cloud’ computing imminent, there are more reasons than ever to think about getting a managed server. Simply put, servers are one or more computers that you store all your information on to serve another number of computers and users. You could log -in online for example, from anywhere you want, to all your company information. Google uses it’s servers to store your Gmail. As it stands today, most business IT support, are recommending for the use of a managed servers. Let’s look at some of the reasons why…

Small business cost effective. With more and more small businesses making up GDP, and more and more jobs falling to contract workers, and people choosing to work for themselves, small business has never been as big as it is today. And it will only get bigger. Managed hosting allows small businesses to pay a small fee and have many of their business needs, such as their databases and software, be taken care of by professionals, and they can grow their business without having to have their own and costly in-house IT support team.

Start-up costs. Compare the cost of a company buying all the hardware to set-up their own dedicated servers to store and process information. Then they need to acquire all the software, and have an IT team manage and install it. With managed servers, small payments monthly are all that is needed. Many off-the-shelf software packages are available instantly, and you don’t have to employ anyone. By providing this service larger companies are essentially sharing the cost to many smaller companies, and with economies of scale, making a profit while providing the product and service at lower cost.

24 hour support. It is more than likely if you have your own staff or your own issues it will be hard to deal with them at 2am. Most reputable companies providing managed servers, offer 24 hour IT support.

Reliability. Managed server companies are the experts at what they do and will probably have a solution for anything that you will need to do, as they have already done it many times over in a number of other situations. This not only means reliable, but probably better.

There are many more advantages for a small business which needs to grow its IT infrastructure, or can greatly benefit from them. It is important that you go with a reputable company otherwise you might find yourself with no support and no access to your data when you need it.

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