Managed dedicated servers

Dedicated servers are the next step for organisations that require more power or capacity than a shared server or VPS can offer.

Birmingham Open Source Solutions leases dedicated servers in professional hosting facilities in the following countries:

• London
• Germany
• US (East coast)

Using multiple datacentres for your servers reduces the impact of a datacentre outage, improving resiliancy and availability of services. Some services are easier to run from multiple locations concurrently than others. Leasing, rather than purchasing and colocating servers, has several benefits:

• No large initial capital expenditure to purchase hardware
• No need to worry about the disposal of old/obsolete hardware
• You can easily "upgrade" your hardware simply by leasing a new server as they become available
• You don't have to deal directly with hardware issues (e.g. failed hard disks)

Leasing servers usually involves a set-up fee and minimum contract length, but even taking this into consideration, it can be an extremely cost-effective way to run your own servers.