Usually all corporate business website which requires 100% uptime guarantee are hosted on a dedicated servers as dedicated server hosting can be considered as most reliable hosting. If your website is getting tremendous traffic and you want to use some custom applications on your site then you will have to go with VPS or dedicated servers where your hosting account would get maximum server resources which you can use it for  your website to run smoothly. First of all you will have to decide whether you really need a dedicated server? or a shared hosting will serve your hosting needs. If you are planning to use some custom applications/scripts for your website then you will have to consider hosting package which will allow you to access server, if you go with dedicated server you would be getting Root/Adminstrative access to your server thus you can install all required softwares/scripts on your server and can test things. Before placing order for a dedicated server you should check with your website hosting service provider if the servers are managed or unmanaged.

Usually most webhost will offer you fully managed dedicated server hosting plans, so its always better to go with a host who will offer you managed dedicated server hosting plans which will make you free from managing your server as your webhost will take care for managing it, taking security updates and all other required hosting related stuffs.  Dedicated servers are more prone to get hacked and compromised so its always better to have good firewall [ software/hardware] and antispam installed on your server.  You may have to pay extra for getting them install on your server so do check pricing details about them. Make sure you have your webhost available round the clock for providing you technical support. You should check if the technical support is totally FREE or PAID support. Your server hardware may get faulty anytime as you cant trust harware which may get damage anytime thus as precautionary measure you should always keep updated backup of your website/server. You can ask your webhost if they offer you offshore backup plans where you can out backup data. Your webhost may offer you some sort of backup services for your server as a part of their managed services.

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