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Dedicated Server Articles and Guides

What's Best for My Business? Cloud Hosting vs. Geo Hosting

January 07, 2010

A cloud host will have many servers, often located all over the globe. Using a technology called load balancing, the cloud host will allocate server resources to each customer as needed. Generally, you'll pay a flat fee for cloud hosting, plus additional monthly fees based on time or resource usage....

Reference | in cloud hosting guides, dedicated server guides | theWHIR

An Analysis of the Offerings of a Dedicated Web Hosting Package

December 25, 2009

When you begin an online venture, it is relatively hard for you to predict whether it will be a success or a failure, so it is common to start with a shared hosting deal. It may be that you experienced no hitches with a shared hosting service for some time. Downtime may have been the reason of annoy...

Reference | from webhostlead.com | in dedicated server guides, web hosting guides | by Michael Smith

How to Essentially Measure your Bandwidth

October 28, 2009

How to Essentially Measure your Bandwidth In the web world of today, bandwidth is referred to the amount of data that is transferred through the network within a specified period of time. It is absolutely important to your website and the requirement of bandwidth totally depends on the type of your ...

Reference | from brainpulse.com | in dedicated server guides | by santosh shrivastava

Server Mirroring Dedicated Servers

October 12, 2009

If you have a dedicated server on which you have a mission critical website running then it is surely not good for you to face any downtime. For this reason some techniques for backups are used. One of the techniques for backup is the Mirroring of the server. In this technique, two servers with the ...

Reference | in dedicated server guides | by Leif Cage

Backup MSSQL Database on Windows Dedicated Server

October 06, 2009

Backups can be really important at Crucial times as you never know when would your server face problem. Hence, it is really necessary that you have a Backup for your MSSQL Database on your Windows Dedicated servers which would help you to get rid of all problems when the server faces problems and yo...

Reference | in dedicated server guides | by Carl Owen

Tips To Choose The Suitable Hardware For Your Dedicated Server

July 02, 2009

Xeons may be the best bet because they actually perform better than the Pentium. But it is inevitable that a hard disk will eventually fail. Again, do research on the internet to find the best hardware.As for hard disks, keep in mind that hard disks do fail at some point.Doing research on the intern...

Reference | in dedicated server guides | by Emmanuel Anuforo

Dedicated Server: Managed or Unmanaged?

July 02, 2009

Hopefully, your website will become so popular that both traffic and money roll in at a steady rate. When you start to get too much traffic though, it is probably time to move on from that shared web hosting platform as the server will not be able to keep up with your demands. The simple solution - ...

Reference | in dedicated server guides | Contel Bradford

Hyper-V Virtual Dedicated Server vs Dedicated Server

July 02, 2009

Now that Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platform is becoming acceptable in the marketplace, it is worthwhile to compare Hyper-V virtual dedicated servers with traditional dedicated servers. These options differ quite significantly in terms of management limitations, connectivity and their uses....

Reference | in dedicated server guides | by Adrian Gates

The Facts About Hosted Virtual Dedicated Servers

July 02, 2009

Server prices may be dropping, but the purchase price is just a small part of the total cost of ownership (TCO). Server budgets expand rapidly once you factor in the cost of maintenance, as well as cabling, cards, rack space, adapters, switches, operating systems and other software licensing costs. ...

Reference | in dedicated server guides | Lisa Gecko

Dedicated Servers and Dedicated IPs

March 06, 2009

Web servers, like every other electronic device that connects with the Internet, are identified by an Internet Protocol (IP) address. So each fax, computer, router, printer, and switch has a distinct IP address. The IP address is made up of four 1-3 digit numbers, that are in the range of 0 - 255 an...

Reference | in dedicated server guides | by theWHIR.com