Dedicated Hosting - The Right Hardware
Dedicated servers must have the most reliable hardware. Beside the question after the hardware security is to be cleared whether any time on site an engineer can look after disturbances. Dutiful service providers also have at disposal at night emergency staff which is ready any time to exchange a defective network card and to carry out a suitable monitoring. Ask the service provider before completion of the contract whether and how he is armed against a hardware failure on Saturday at 3 o'clock in the morning.
The price of a dedicated server or own hardware is directed of course to an essential part after the required components. For static web pages and a prospective traffic of less than 10 gigabytes are sufficient older Celeron-or Duron processors with only 400 MHz and 128 MB RAM completely. Who lets go against it costly Servlets under Tomcat and counts on high traffic of more than 60 gigabytes, that should already seat a contemporary processor with 2 GHz as well as at least 1 MB RAM.
How much RAM your computer really needs and whether you must seat, perhaps, a stronger processor, nevertheless, reveals itself always only in practice by the monitoring with snmp and mrtg.
Who would like to rent a server merely for private test purposes or uncritical applications, should have a look at the favorable virtual Root server. Though in a virtual Root server not all options as for example the application of own kernel or the touch-down of packet filter rules are ready, however, you can collect for an unbeatable favorable price experiences as an administrator of a web server. For the ambitious, but not commercial homepage project a virtual Root server is almost predestined.