Dedicated Web Server - Checklist Before You Buy
1. Support round-the-clock accessible and short response times (maximum four hours by contract assured).
2. High flexibility (updates of hardware components must be possible any time; a change of the traffic rates to the month-first).
3. The Internet binding was realized with at least two Carriers and a total of 9 Gbit.
4. An USV with at least 30 minutes of battery backup is ready.
5. The contracting partner assures of an availability or network uptime of at least 99.8 percentage.
6. Full backup should be playable in the shortest time of the service provider itself and be made if requested
7. In critical environments had to go on a serial console with which the computer can be also administered remote like on site (works on the biology or file system checks with the boot still before initialization of the network card also become possible), are not renounced.
8. In especially critical environments the service provider should be ready to push a CD-ROM with the self-made emergency system in the disk drive.