Managed Versus Unmanaged Web Hosting

A managed hosting service offers the support and expertise to maintain your website and to perform routine maintenance without your involvement. This can be a viable alternative to hiring or using your staff to maintain your website. In simple terms,

An unmanaged hosting service means you are responsible for every aspect of maintaining the website, from installing upgrades and patches to ensuring website uptime.

A managed hosting service, however, means that the host will ensure the technicalities of keeping your website up-to-date and running smoothly are done.

With both managed and unmanaged websites, you are simply renting the website area from the hosting company, in the same manner you rent a house from a real estate agent.

Unmanaged hosting, despite its name, does not leave you entirely to your own devices. All hosting companies will offer a certain level of support for all their hosting packages. This support of course includes hardware maintenance for things like hard drive failure, and extra technical support may be available if you need help with configuration or software installation. You will have to pay for this extra support but hiring a tech on an hourly basis from time to time may be cheaper than going with a fully managed package.

Whether you choose managed or unmanaged hosting depends on the technical requirements of your site and the ability of you or your staff to manage the resources so that it is running at peak efficiency. If you prefer to have the reassurance of having highly trained professionals looking after your website, go with managed hosting. If you or your staff can handle most of the maintenance chores and daily maintenance, you would be better off with an unmanaged service.

Keeping a website running in top condition can be a time consuming task. A managed hosting service offers the support and expertise to maintain your website and to perform routine maintenance such as software upgrades. This kind of service can be a viable alternative to hiring your staff to look after your site. However, Managed web hosting comes at a chargeable fee and is more expensive than unmanaged hosting.  Whether the price is justified depends on the complexity of your website and whether you already have people on staff who can look after the day to day operations of your site. Aussie Wide Websites  has managed services available for around $1.00 a day, and you can review this here - Managed v Unmanaged Web Hosting

In simple terms, an unmanaged website means you are responsible for every aspect of maintaining the website, from installing upgrades and patches and ensuring website uptime. A managed  website, however, means that the host will ensure the technicalities of keeping your website up-to-date and running smoothly are done.

If you are technically savvy with websites, an unmanaged service is likely the right choice. But if you are lacking in technical skills required for the website, but still need maintenance and regular software updates to your site (or sites) a managed service would be the right choice.
Aussie Wide Websites Maintenance Services are available here or call our office during business hours on 0493 211 322 should you need any further assistance