How to choose the right dedicated server?

Wednesday, 02 February 2011

A variety of businesses, personal website owners and various types of clients will want to get the right service for their dedicated server needs.  There are many options to choose from and choosing may be a difficult task if the customer does not know what to look for.  The customer may need to simply expand their website while another may need a dedicated server simply to handle the tasks of services such as databases or applications and related software.  The right service will have the proper combination of the requirements needed by the customer while maintaining an appropriate price for the service and resources.

A customer will more than likely have an idea of what they will need from their dedicated hosting plan options.  They can establish a better overview of options if they make a list of what they need.  This way they can compare available plans with their needs and can choose from the options which can provide what they need at an appropriate cost.  One of the main options that a customer will need to choose between is manages and unmanaged hosting for their dedicated server.

About Managed Dedicated Servers

The managed hosting is a very simple concept.  The customer will have access to the server, even root access and have the ability to perform advanced functions directly from their control panel or alternative control methods. The customer will not have to worry about the background work with the server such as updating, managing errors and handling their own support.  An unmanaged dedicated server is basically the opposite in which the customer will have to perform all of the maintenance for the server as well as carry out the support functions for their dedicated server.  Managed servers will tend to cost more.

Once the customer has made their choice of what is necessary with the dedicated server hosting, they can start to look into the hosting companies that offer the dedicated server plans.  The most important thing that a client will need to pay attention to is the speed of the server, the speed of the connections that are possible with it and reliability of the service.  A customer will want to ensure that their server is functional as much as possible with a near 100% uptime even though perfection is not possible with any company.  Companies that have lower than 99% uptime should be passed over as they are too risky when it is important for the client's websites and services to be up.

Resource-wise, bandwidth is one of the important things to look into for the client's needs.  This is the amount of data transfer available with the server plan.  It needs to be adequate for what the client needs for their service.  Server storage space is also important.  A website which does not need a lot of storage may opt out of using a service which offers large amounts of data storage to save money while large and fast growing websites will want to have as much as possible as well as the ability to upgrade when necessary.