Sourcing all or part of your IT infrastructure is a critical decision. In order to ensure that you hire the best managed service provider, conduct a comprehensive research on the options and short list a few that seem to fit the bill. 

2. Managed Hosting
A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting services is a type
of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone
else.
 Servers and Devices are owned by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) or hosting
provider.
 Customers retain have root/admin access.
 Limited to managing websites and applications through online tools.

3. Why Choose Managed Hosting Service?
When seeking server hosting plans for business or personal use, several factors should
be kept in mind:
 Type of server: Shared, Dedicated, Virtual, or Cloud Server
 Purchasers must decide between Managed and Unmanaged hosting.
Although both support the actual server hardware, managed hosting services take on
the responsibility for all server maintenance
NOTE: Useful for consumers who do not want to focus their resources on technical
and server administrative tasks.

4. Reasons to Choose Managed Hosting
1. Managed Technical Support 2. Proactive Monitoring
3. Network Security 4. Server Optimization
5. Web Scalability 6. Managed Hosting Server
Migrations
7. Automatic Server Backup 8. Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO)

5. Selecting the Best Managed Service Provider
• Sourcing all or part of your IT infrastructure is a critical decision. In order to ensure
that you hire the best managed service provider, conduct a comprehensive
research on the options and short list a few that seem to fit the bill.
• - Round the clock support
• - Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalations, if required
• - Onsite support
• - Continuous monitoring
• - Proactive support for issues
• - Routine maintenance checks
• - Alerts, as and when required

6. Manages services can be procured for
the following:
• - Structured cabling (Installation and support)
• - Networking (Architecture, installation and support)
• - Systems (Fabrication, installation and support)
• - Storage (Installation, management and support)
• - Virtualization (Infrastructure, data and applications)
• - Unified Communications

7. Conclusion
• Once you have a few contenders short listed for the job, contact them to find out
exactly what they have in store for you, and more importantly, their service costs.
Based on it, you will be able to further narrow down your selection. In addition,
you can also check the credibility of the providers you short list by examining their
testimonials, references and list of clients.

8. For More Information Contact Us
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823 S Detroit Ave
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Tulsa, OK 74120
Phone: 918.585.8488
Fax: 918.585.5615
Email: sales@peakuptime.com
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