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Dedicated servers are the immediate needs of companies because they allow them to manage their websites in the most profitable manner. The best-dedicated server is the one that can be easily used for serving the needs of a company. It only hosts a single website or domain name. Dedicated servers can also have more than one website but they all fulfill the needs of the same company.

It is necessary to use a dedicated server for a company when its website gets a large amount of traffic. The host company takes care of the website from a remote location but the client has total control over the website. The dedicated servers can only contain the data of a company, but they cannot be used to process any of the customer's queries. However, now some servers exist that also process data apart from acting as a server. The dedicated servers are not physically placed with the company; rather the hosting company has them.

The components of any dedicated server are its operating system, the software and its connectivity with the internet. All such components are placed in the data centers of the hosting company. Since a dedicated server can function on both Linux and windows servers, both Linux dedicated servers and Windows Dedicated Server exist.

Such control was necessary because companies felt that hosting companies did not have the specialization to manage their advanced Ecommerce sites.. However, these websites were the need of complex businesses for promoting sales. Therefore, companies through such servers can manage such sites themselves from far locations. Therefore, the need for dedicated servers has emerged because since past companies desired an exclusive control over their websites. Such servers also save the cost for hosting companies. They get exclusive power facilities and bandwidth at the speed of 10 or 100 Mb/s Ethernet. Heavy initial investment is not required to buy a dedicated server.

Managed dedicated servers also exist which ensure that the company decides the content of its website. It also makes changes in the website from time to time.

A Windows dedicated server implies that the users can benefit by installing servers with point and click management. They can introduce changes in the website easily since they are not giving the server space to someone else. The users are aware of what kind of operations are actually working on the server. Such web based applications that require technologies like.NET, SQL, Microsoft exchange and cold fusion can be used easily on such servers. The company knows even the traffic, which is gained by a server. Applications, which receive a high amount of traffic on a daily basis, are ideal for such servers. Such servers use the windows 2003 and 2008 operating systems. Linux dedicated servers by hosting providers use Red Hat Enterprise that is a commercial adaptation of this software. Cheap dedicated servers can also be a preferred choice of the company but they should have the essential attributes of high bandwidth and data backup. Such data backup is extremely important to safeguard the company in event of a server crash.