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14.9%

16.2%

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1.7%

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10%

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Figure 1: Annual Web-hosting budgets. Source: ActivMedia Research (www.activmediaresearch.com).

pyramid. When colocation is combined with managed

services, however, the service components actually

exceed those available with shared and dedicated

servers.

The incremental difference between the shared/dedicated

and colocation/managed service provider (MSP) com-

Colocation

Managed

Services

Shared &

Dedicated

Servers

Content

Application

Application Server

and Database

Operating System

and Utility Software

Server Hardware

Backup, Recovery and Re-Boot

Firewall and Load Balancing

Network Connectivity and DNS

Physical Infrastructure

Figure 2: The service component pyramid.

binations is the MSPs’ support of application servers

and databases. This is because the Web sites out-

sourced to MSPs are typically the largest and most

complex. They are often based upon application

servers that, in turn, depend on high-end database

packages.