by Visvanath Ratnaweera.
For a 24/7 server for the Internet own hardware and network infrastructure can never beat a professional hosting service for many reasons:
- hardware replacement: a hosting service can afford to stock spare parts
- fail-over mechanisms: against power failure, failure of network equipment, individual network providers failing, ...
- connectivity to the Internet: professional hosting providers have Gbit links to mutliple Internet exchange points
- web-based installations: you can reinstall/change the operating system within minutes
- backup scripts: you get professional scripts for backups
- on-site backup: you get on-site backup hardware where the traffic does not count
- VPS save energy (by bundling servers)
- hardware replacement: a hosting service can afford to stock spare parts
- fail-over mechanisms: against power failure, failure of network equipment, individual network providers failing, ...
- connectivity to the Internet: professional hosting providers have Gbit links to mutliple Internet exchange points
- web-based installations: you can reinstall/change the operating system within minutes
- backup scripts: you get professional scripts for backups
- on-site backup: you get on-site backup hardware where the traffic does not count
- VPS save energy (by bundling servers)