When it comes to web hosting, some clients want complete control over their website's administrative functions. The best way to achieve this is to take on unmanaged web hosting services that will give you complete control over the administration on your server. It is best to choose someone technically minded to handle all the web information, as they would need to be able to install and manage the server.

Unmanaged hosting services are only recommended for people or businesses that have a technical person who is able to manage the server environment. Unmanaged servers are usually better for larger companies, who will need to free up their own disk space, and also for those in the engineering, geographical, science and multimedia fields. This is because these fields usually develop real time internet applications that require complete control of the hosting servers. The companies that need an unmanaged server are those that run in house web applications, with large disk space usage.

Unmanaged servers are definitely a high maintenance option in hosting. This is because they constantly need hardware and software updates, which land up costing a lot of money. There are some computers that sell physical servers configured just for unmanaged hosting applications. These are usually costly, and if you go down the route of choosing unmanaged hosting servers you should definitely sit down and work out the budget with your IT manager.

If you are a small business, you may find it easier and more logical to use a managed hosting service. If you have a managed hosting service, you will be provided with both technical and administrative support.