Unmanaged Hosting

It's rather simple. Unmanaged hosting means that your hosting provider has taken the burden of your shoulders and done following;

• Entered into a long-term contract with a Housing Company/Data Center renting sufficient rack space and power
• Designed and built a redundant and secure infrastructure
• Evaluated, tested and finally purchased suitable servers
• Entered into long-term contracts with one or more carriers
• Employed sufficient and skilled staff to run the entire operations 24/7

Moreover, unmanaged hosting means that you are not in charge of hardware maintenance, replacing faulty hardware and solving power and connectivity issues. Your unmanaged hosting provider has specialized its business around these tasks and will take care of everything in this regard.

Now, what's your responsibility? It's very simple as well. You will take care of your usage of the server. Operating systems, applications and data are your responsibilities, as your unmanaged provider does not have any access to your servers.

Managed Hosting

- is everything included above.

Just add that your provider's staff (both permanent and temporary staff) has full access to your data and applications by having your root password on file to your servers...