Dedicated hosts charge a lot for server management service. A lot more than what they should considering that actually they don't have to spend much time keeping one up-to-date, specially when it's rented by a hosting start-up. It's just like paying the 200% extra for the Cisco sticker when buying memory modules from Cisco directly for your router.

There are many 3rd party services, also called outsourced support companies, that offer server administration packages on a monthly basis. Since their only business is outsourced server management, their plans are infact much diversified and will prove more feasible than the one-for-all approach your hosting provider implements.

Starting from $29.95/m and up to $100/m for each server, you can easily find a firm offering such service. They are reliable, available round the clock and in business for probably longer than your host. Possibilities even exist that your host is only handing over your server to them for managment and making a margin on doing so. So why not go directly?

Other benefits of assigning server administration to 3rd party is that, should you decide to switch dedicated host in future, you already have a strong partner in making that switch easily and with less troubles. They can help move all of your websites and help for matters in which the existing host won't find much pleasure.

So grab an even more powerful dedicated server, unmanaged by the host, and assign this task to those who are keen to pass on the savings of economy of scale.