Our pricing is very competitive for a multi-core managed dedicated fully redundant clustered server with several firewalls, security wise, and full off-site backup. Can not be compared to a single dedicated root server without full management. Not counting that it comes with expert support from hardware up to Joomla, CB, CBSubs, and special performance fine-tunings for demanding websites.

If your website is your business, then downtime and data-loss are your nightmares.

To avoid such nightmares for this site, we designed this hosting:

Our 24/7 hardware reliability is achieved through full redundancy. Even disks of the RAID array are network-distributed on separate physical servers.

As a matter of fact, your *dedicated* server runs virtually on multiple physical servers where dedicated hardware is firmly allocated and mirrored to dedicated physical server, so that there is automatic and quick fail-over without loss of data.

This setup is complemented by multiple levels of firewalls, protecting your site from potentially damaging requests. So all is doubled basically doubling our hardware, datacenter and so on costs, with hot-spares-in-the-private-cluster.

The forgotten story of hardware root-servers is that when such a dedicated root server fails (without such setups like the ones here), the time to re-provision a new one, restore the settings, site backups and so on can be of 1-2 days, where your site is offline.

Now taking all of the above in account, sometimes not even set up for mission-critical corporate servers, and the rest shown in our hosting presentation pages, it is a very very good pricing.

Same setup is done for our standard hosting plans, just that it's not dedicated hardware and power. Now... that too makes our offering a very competitive deal.

Now you might not need that kind of redundancy and security, and then it might be an overshoot for your needs. We can also fully understand that it can be out of your budget.

Now all of that said, to come back to your initial question: with 500-1000 users browsing your site continuously, a dedicated server is sure recommended to keep your site speedy. If you plan starting with less users, then you could choose one of our standard plans, and we could then move your site to a dedicated redundant server when needed.

We don't do non-redundant hosting, as we don't use that ourselves. There are enough offers in that area.