Dedicated server is a hosting service where the entire server is exclusively dedicated to a single customer. Customers whom order our dedicated server plan have full control of the server, such as root access to the operating system and dedicated server hardware. A dedicated server will be assigned with their own CPU, memory, storage space and IP address. Therefore, performance will not be affected by the usage patterns of other customers.

Dedicated servers are used for various purposes such as acting as a gaming server, database management server, host traffic intensive websites, run huge email volumes and many more. It is highly recommended for organizations or individuals who requires consistent performance to run their mission critical IT activities day in day out.

Dedicated servers have many benefits and below are a few of them:

• Full control over server, users have the root access to the server.
• Flexibility, install software programs or setup configurations based on your own requirements.
• Server shall be customized according to user’s preferences such as hardware configuration and type of OS.
• Resources allocated are 100% dedicated to you, results in better consistent performance.
• Not affected by other users, unlike in a shared hosting environment.

So who should choose dedicated hosting server rather than shared hosting plan? Below are some guidelines.

• Very-high-traffic website owners, be it an info site or ecommerce site.
• Individuals or organizations who need consistent performance and not being affected by others.
• Users with high volume email usage.
• Administrators who requires special server configuration and software installation.

Shared hosting users together shared hosting resources to bring down the total cost of ownership for having a hosting service. The shared resources primarily includes CPU, memory, disk I/O and bandwidth.

All shared hosting users have the responsibility to use the shared resources fairly so that all resources can be equally distributed among its group of users. The cost of a shared hosting account is affordable to individual and organization of all sizes.

Dedicated hosting is where all hosting resources are dedicated to a single owner, it may be a single user or an entire organization. The specification of server resources such as CPU, amount of memory, bandwidth, disk storage size and so on shall be determined by its owner during the ordering of the dedicated service. Since hosting resources are dedicated, consistent high performance is guaranteed.

Besides the need for performance to go for dedicated hosting, dedicated users also have the flexibility to setup any server functionalities or install any software onto the server based on their needs.

Both MS Windows Server and Linux OS platforms are able to serve your web, database, email or other specific task that a server can perform. The choice between Windows Server or Linux platforms usually depends on the requirement of the solution that it is built upon or the preference of the system administrator. Below is a brief comparison of the differences between both platforms.

FEATURES \ PLATFORM	Windows Server	Linux
OS Version	Windows Server 2012	CentOS 6.3
Web Control Panel	WebsitePanel	WHM cPanel (optional)
Root Access	Remote Desktop	Putty
Web Server	IIS	Apache
.Net Framwork & ASP .Net
PHP Scripting
Other Scripting Support
MS SQL Database
MySQL Database + PhpMyAdmin

Our servers are located in ISO certified data centres at the hub of our nation Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Cyberjaya ("Silicon Valley of Malaysia") and Penang. This provides optimum network and redundancy support to all our assets. Our Malaysia data centres are managed by TM VADS IDC. For overseas requests, we have servers located at the data centres in Montreal Canada, Europe, Singapore and the USA.