Looking at the market today, there is so many competition in the hosting industry, and prices keep falling year after year. The Top providers for are:

1. Server Pronto Hosting
AMD 2000+ CPU
1.5 GB RAM
2000 GB Bandwidth
80 GB Storage
Setup: $69
Price: $43 / month

2. VRT Servers
1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU
2 GB RAM
3000 GB Bandwidth
160 GB Storage
Setup: Free
Price: $59 / Month

3. SevelL Networks
1.7 GHz Intel Celeron CPU
512 MB RAM
750 GB Bandwidth
80 GB Storage
Setup: Free
Price: $40 / Month

The control panel is an important aspect in your future server, the best know choices are cPanel and Plesk. With cPanel/whm is by far the best and easiest. Usually the price is $30 to $45 per month per server.

cPanel will take approximately 256 mb of your RAM, so it’s not practical to install cPanel in a system with lower then 512 mb of memory. Most of providers give you the ability to easily upgrade your system memory if you need to.

When it comes to the operating system, almost all Linux versions are free. on the other hand, Windows OS will cost you probably $20 to $40 per month, depending on the specific version. If you want to use SQL databases in your Windows server, you are going to need another license for Microsoft SQL Server. The cost will start from $20 per month for the web edition.

There is two types of dedicated hosting, managed and unmanaged. Managed means the support will prepare and install everything for you, while in unmanaged, you have to do every thing after they do the setup, that includes: installing the operating system, cPanel or Plesk, configuration files and the likes.

Managed dedicated hosting, while letting you concentrate on the important things in your business, it’s much more expensive, and i don’t recommend it. Unmanaged is the better choice, you will need probably a couple of weeks for the learning process, and after that your ready to go, and save alot of money that you will need in re-investing in your business.