How do I select a provider?
Choose a provider who you feel you can rely on and communicate with. Assess the response you get to your initial enquiry and how efficiently and courteously your communications are dealt with. If a provider is anything less than 100% efficient, drop them - however cheap or tempting the services.

You can make comparisons between what is on offer from different providers in these areas:

a) Disk space (Mb)
b) Number of POP accounts
c) Bandwidth - you need high speed and connective reliability.
d) Access features
e) Spam tagging
f) Virus checks
g) Backup frequency
h) Firewall robustness

...and another vital thing - don't go with less than 100% uptime guarantee.

What is "managed hosting"?
Briefly, "managed hosting" means that the management of the hardware, the running of the networks and the critical patching of your servers is someone else's responsibility. You don't own the hardware, though it will be supplied with the necessary routing equipment and network connectivity. You can choose your operating system and the whole caboodle will be set up for you, ready to go. The main point of having managed hosting providers is that they will handle most of the administrative tasks on the server, leaving you free to concentrate on your business. As with any other business arrangement, make sure you have a well-written contract and that you are clear exactly where each party's responsibilities begin and end.

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