Dedicated Hosting When do you need a Dedicated Server?

Posted by jason stewart on March 6th, 2020

With best dedicated server hosting uk, you will have full access to the resources of a server completely dedicated to you (CPU, memory, and storage) for you to use as needed. In this type of service, a single person controls the entire server and its resources.

It is a brilliant option if you need a lot of resources and super security, but you will also need the technical knowledge and money necessary for the most expensive hosting service you will find.

For people who use shared hosting services, in the cloud or VPS, web hosting on dedicated servers is often considered the next step (and perhaps the last). It is a premium accommodation option that can start from a cost of € 40 or € 50 per month to far exceed € 1000.

The best-dedicated server in the UK, in my opinion, you will find in:

1 & 1 IONOS - an economic alternative

OVH - ideal for sites with sporadic consumption peaks

Actions - powerful servers ideal for games

Dinahosting - hosting with excellent support in English

Arsys - application-oriented with high consumption

1 & 1 IONOS - an economic dedicated hosting

Price from: € 30.00 / month.

Basic Configuration:

 CPU: Intel® Atom C2750, 8 cores @ 2.4 GHz.

 RAM: 8 GB DDR3 ECC.

 Storage: 1TB SATA (HDD).

Cheap and Global

1 & 1 Hosting is a European global projection company that has reached a coverage of millions of customers around the world.

Since its union with Profitbricks in 2018, it has been renamed IONOS. This is one of the companies that offer the cheapest dedicated servers on the market, as well as having a variety of plans for all types of clients and many server locations around the world.

Special services included

It is clear that such a large company would not spare that each contracted service is accompanied by very good additional services. Among the services, we can count on is the availability of associating up to 256 IPs to the server at no monthly cost, only 3 dollars will be charged for the installation. Of course, the IP must belong to the same area of ​​the server but must be geolocated.

Plans

1 & 1 IONOS classifies its plans according to the type of storage used. If you use storage on traditional HDD discs the plans are cheaper, while dedicated hosting plans with SSD (faster storage) are between 5, 10 and up to € 30 more expensive. All plans include a free domain, unlimited traffic, SiteLock malware protection and CDN with RailGun.

However, you should remember that all these plans require a € 50 service registration fee that will be charged only once.

A8i HDD (€ 30 / month) - Intel Atom C2750 processor with 8 cores at 2.4 GHz, 8 GB of memory and 1000 GB of storage (RAID 1).

L-16 HDD (€ 40 / month) - Intel Xeon E3-1230 v6 processor with 4 cores at 3.5 GHz, 16 GB of memory and 1000 GB of storage (RAID 1).

XL-32 HDD (€ 60 / month) - Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 processor with 4 cores at 3.8 GHz, 32 GB of memory and 2000 GB of storage (RAID 1).

XL-64 HDD (€ 80 / month) - Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 processor with 4 cores at 3.8 GHz, 64 GB of memory and 1000 GB of storage.

OVH - ideal for sites with sporadic and viral peaks

Price from: € 58.19 / month.

Basic Configuration:

 CPU: Intel® Xeon® E3-1270v6, 4 cores @ 3.8 GHz.

 RAM: 32GB DDR4 ECC.

 Storage: SoftRaid 2x2TB (HDD).

 Locations: France, Germany, London, United Kingdom, Poland, Canada.

For projects that need high speed

The French giant OVH is one of the largest Internet hosting companies with more than one million customers and 20 server colocation services. 

However, such popularity did not only come from marketing, but the tools also offered to experts are very good, a good gallery of server configurations make it a very flexible option.

Special services included

It is clear that such a large company would not spare that each contracted service is accompanied by very good additional services. Among the services, we can count on is the availability of associating up to 256 IPs to the server at no monthly cost, only 3 dollars will be charged for the installation.

The transfer offered is incredible, guaranteeing speeds of the order of 250 Mbit / s up to 500 Mbit / s. With the absorption of spikes by a burst of 1 or 3 Gbit / s, you will have constant stability in the speed of the server without worries.

Additionally, free protection against DDoS Denial of Service attacks is offered to keep your server secure. Of course, security is also complemented by the possibility of making guards with a 500GB space at no additional cost.

Plans

OVH has classified its dedicated servers in different types according to the user's requirement. The Rise range servers are the most affordable, ideal for any project. Then the advance servers are already aimed at small businesses that want to invest in multipurpose servers that adapt to the company's own needs. There are servers for all types, infrastructure, storage, high range, etc.

Rise-1 (€ 58.19 / month) - Intel Xeon E3-1270v6 4-core 3.8GHz, with 32GB of memory.

Rise-2 (€ 87.29 / month) - Intel Xeon D-1540 8-core 2.0 GHz, with 64GB of memory.

Rise-3 (€ 106.69 / month) - Intel Xeon E5-1650v4 6-core 3.6GHz, with 128GB of memory.

Rise-4 (€ 155.19 / month) - 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 16-core 2.4GHz, with 128GB of memory.

Rise-5 (€ 242.49 / month) - 2 Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 20-core 2.4GHz, with 256GB of memory.

Actions - servers with extreme performance lens cover

Price from: € 99.90 / month.

Basic Configuration:

 CPU: Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 @ 3.4GHz.

 RAM: 16GB

 Storage: 2x 1TB SATA (HDD).

 Locations: UK.

High-performance requirements

Acne is a company that belongs to the Telefónica group, one of the largest European telecommunications groups in the world that have entered the world of hosting offering first-class services.

It offers DELL servers and a data center in Madrid, ideal for projects in the UK looking for high speeds in the region and super performance. It offers super connectivity through a redundant BGP-4 service and a highly controlled data center for temperature and energy.

Special services included

Server administration is implemented through the Parallels ® Plesk Panel control software. Being able to monitor the server at all times, with remote reboots, perimeter firewalls, and complete management.

Now the negative part is that in order to achieve greater security through an Anti-Spam / Antivirus relay you will have to pay an additional cost.

Plans

SERVER 16 (€ 99.90 / month) - Intel Xeon E3-1230 v6 4-core at 3.4GHz, with 16GB of memory and 2 HDD discs of 1TB SATA

SERVER 32 (€ 159.90 / month) - Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 4-core 3.4GHz, with 32GB of memory, 2 HDD discs of 1TB SATA and 1 optional SSD disk of 800GB

SERVER 64 (€ 299.90 / month) - Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 8-core at 2.1GHz, with 64GB of memory, 2 HDD 1TB SATA drives and 1 optional 800GB SSD disk

SERVER 128 (€ 399.90 / month) - 2 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 16-core at 2.1GHz, with 128GB of memory, 2 HDD discs of 1TB SATA and 1 optional SSD disk of 800GB

SERVER 256 (€ 699.90 / month) - 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4114 20-core 2.2GHz, with 256GB of memory, 2 SSD 960GB and 1 optional SSD 800GB or one 960GB

Arsys - ideal for applications with constant high consumptionarsys cover

Price from: € 55.00 / month .

Basic Configuration:

 CPU: Intel® Xeon® E3-1230 v6 @ 3.5GHz.

 RAM: 16GB DDR4.

 Storage: 2x 1TB SATA (SSD).

 Locations: UK.

You pay only for what you use

Arsys is another English company focused on web hosting services that were involved in the creation and development of the first European cloud platform, and now with more than 266 thousand clients, it is one of the leading companies in Europe.

In your dedicated server options, you can choose to pay for services per minute of use of each server. In addition, a bandwidth of 1GB with unlimited traffic makes it a viable option for those who have a project that can have peaks of server use and do not need to pay for a constant value.

Special services included

Arsys offers with all its dedicated server plans monitoring, IPS-IDS protection, the most advanced redundant firewalls, and backup services through an intuitive Control Panel.

Support services are also completely in English 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Plans

PRO S (€ 55) - Intel Xeon E3-1230 v6 4-core at 3.5GHz, with 16GB of memory and storage on 2 HDD discs of 1TB

PRO M (€ 80) - Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 4-core 3.8GHz, with 32GB of memory and storage on 2 HDT 2TB discs

PRO L (€ 100) - Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 4-core at 3.8GHz, with 64GB of memory and storage on 2 HDD 2TB discs

PRO S (€ 165) - Intel Xeon Silver 4123 8-core 3.0GHz, with 96GB of memory and storage on 2 4TB HDDs

PRO S (€ 220) - Intel Xeon Gold 6126 12-core 2.6GHz, with 192GB of memory and storage on 2 4TB HDDs