September 29th, 2010
admin
When we are in the market searching for a dedicated server the worst thing we can do is to start our search by typing in google “cheap dedicated server”, its the worst thing to do cause in first place you will find ten sites with great offers in dedicated servers, which at the end rent those servers to some other company, for this reason I’ve decided to give you a set of tips to help you choose a provider…
- Value for money, you need to make the best out of your money, assuring you will get a nice profit after your investment.
- Reliability, you need to make sure your new server will stay up 24/7.
- Speed, what is it good the fastest server around if it will have slow response due to slow connections?
- Flexibility, you need a company that truly adapts to your needs not the other side, in the end your business is what matters.
- ISO certified, As a serious enterprise you would want to be certified by all means, why not signing with a company already certified.
- Along with reliability comes the support, it has to be 24/7, but be aware cause it is not the same when the support comes in the shape of an email or a ticket, by nature humans have the ability to communicate an idea faster by simply speaking it, you need to be able to talk to somebody in order to really get your issues troubleshooted.
- Dont forget the SO you will be using, if its a windows based server what you are looking for, not every provider supplies them.
- Perhaps this point should be at the top, but somehow people dont think this is as important, components, always ask for the components they use to provision your server.
- Take a close reading at the fine print where it talks about the bandwidth your server has assigned to.
- At last but not at least, make sure there are no hidden fees or extra payments such as an “installation fee”, or an unwanted upgrade, or the “cost of the license”.
I hope these short tips help you choose a “worth for you money” server, if they dont and you have more concrete questions, post them in a comment.
September 14th, 2010
admin
Could infrastructure service delivers computer infrastructure, sometimes trough a virtualization platform. This way clients instead of buying servers, space or network equipment, they just buy the resources (or rent them per month).
When you buy these resources you will get billed for a base amount of resource and the convenient part of IaaS is that if you exceed that base amount you don’t have to buy more, you will get billed for that extra, for instance if you have very low activity you wont be spending the same as if you had bought a server.
September 9th, 2010
admin
Its called Cloud Hosting when you host in a Cloud of servers, that is having various servers connected among each other providing scaling capabilities and almost no limits as far as processing power, hard disk, and memory availability.
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Cloud Hosting provides greater advantages in opposite to a Dedicated Hosting scheme, for instance, cloud hosting can prevent you from hardware failure (a good server cloud is rarely located all under the same roof), having your hosting done in a cloud can also mean instant scaling, without the need of adding hardware to your server. |
In addition to all the advantages Cloud Hosting offers you, serious hosting providers also offer special training programs, and profesional advice to help you decide if your current hosting package is the right for your current needs. If its not Cloud Hosting makes the upgrade process simpler and faster, real time like.
Having understood what Cloud Hosting is, lets se some other terms that are related to Cloud Hosting, could be called services but not always services of the Cloud.
September 7th, 2010
admin
Dedicated Servers is in terms of internet hosting, when the client leases and entire server, without sharing it, this type of hosting gives the client more flexibility, allowing full control of the server, including choice of operating system, hardware, etc.
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Sometimes the server administration is provided by the hosting company, as well as support for the operating system or aplications of the server. |
| Allthough Dedicated Servers are scalable, they can’t scale up with the ease and speed in which Clustered Servers can. But this is not necessarily a disadvantage, because the client own the server they can decide with concrete numbers how much space and memory they want to have in the server, with the certainty that no one else will use it. |
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September 7th, 2010
admin
Considered as the new paradigm in Web Services, it offers computing services through Internet.
This means everything you can get from buying and actual PC, you can have it by leasing it from the “Cloud”, as a service.
According to the IEEE Cloud Computing is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in Internet servers and gets sent in temporary client caches, it involves the Software as a service concept among with other technologies that strongly relay on the Internet to satisfy its users software needs.
At the same time Cloud Computing is divided in layers, or services, these are:
- Software as a Service (SaaS): Its located on the higher layer and its a full application offered as a service, on demand, multithreaded, this is a single instance of the software running on the provider infrastructure serving multiple customers. An example of this is Google Mail.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS): The middle layer is the abstraction of a development environment and the packing of a service charge. The archetype is an image loading Xen (part of Amazon Web Services) Web base containing a battery (eg a Linux distro, a Web server and a programming environment like Perl or Ruby). PaaS offers can service all phases of development and testing of software, or may specialize in any particular area, such as content management.
- Infrastructure as a Service (IasS): Consists the lower layer, and its a mean to deliver basic storage and computing capabilities as an standard web service. It can handle various types of work loads, from batch processing to storage/server rise in peak hours. The best example would be Amazon Web Services, which EC2 and S3 services offer essential computing and storage services.
All of these services offer something very insteresting, its time now we explain it, Scalability.
When we are in the market searching for a dedicated server the worst thing we can do is to start our search by typing in google “cheap dedicated server”, its the worst thing to do cause in first place you will find ten sites with great offers in dedicated servers, which at the end rent those servers to some other company, for this reason I’ve decided to give you a set of tips to help you choose a provider…
