Managed Hosting

LiquidWeb is an excellent choice for someone looking for a cheap managed hosting. Their supported is excellent. They are known to helpout even debugging your PHP code.

Price starts from $189 per month. While their prices are a lot cheaper than the likes of rackspace, the support is very helpful indeed. Hardware issues are fixed within an hour, they take full backups, what else can you ask for?

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Hostgator offers a managed dedicated servers at a reasonable price. They allow you to select from four dedicated server offers, which starts from $174.00 per month (basic) and goes up to $374.00 (pro)per month.

Best part of hostgator dedicated servers is the customer support. Hostgator is known to be a customer oriented company, with support staff willing to walk that extra mile with you. With prices less than half of what rackspace would charge for a similar setup, hostgator offers excellent value for money.

Hostgator doesn't allow you as much customization as you would expect, rather allow you to choose from a set of pre-configured options. For most purpose, any one of their four offers should work quite well.

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Hostway offers both managed and root servers. Each managed server comes with firewall protection and is connected to one of the fastest networks in the world. Monitoring and management will be done by the hosting co.

Servers start from £149.00 and could go up to £759.00. They also charge set up charges of £199.00.

If you are looking for a good UK managed host, Hostway is defenitley a good option, even though a bit costly. They had been around for years and had a very good reutation. Of late, there seems to be quite a few complaints about their customer support.

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Verio is a leader in hosting company in managed private servers and virtual proivate servers. They provide only the top configuration servers with matching service. The price is on heavier side, starting from $599 and could go up to $1195 for solaris MPS. They also charge a heavy setup fee of $499.

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Peer1 offers managed dedicated hosting at a reasonable price. They offer firewalls, backups and monitoring for the the servers. The rates are much below that of rackspace. Visit their site and talk to the support team for a quote, as they dont publish it online.

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Rackspace is a great Hosting company, with Fanatical Support™. If you can afford their rates, look no further for a managed hosting.

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