What are servers? Servers are centrally located machines
, which centrally manages and hosts a different kind of services and applications. With the growing and evolving technology internet has become a vital part in our lives. We use internet for a variety of hosted services and never bothered to know where we get this service. There are several dedicated servers, which manage and host a number of applications centrally.
A dedicated server is a type of internet hosting where the client the leases the entire server which cannot be shared anyone. By leasing a dedicated for your organization you can manage the sever with your choice of operating system or hardware. The hosting company as an additional service generally provides the administrative privileges of your server. Dedicated servers are often used in data centers providing redundant power to your systems and most of the times give you a larger return on investment with less overhead costs. The service provider provides you support your operating system and applications and the provider owns the hardware of the server.
If you are planning to host, your site on the web there are several servers available and dedicated server is one such server that is hosts your site exclusively and lets a complete access and control over the server. Although, you control the server you are not the owner, the ownership remains with the web hosts.
The advantages of having a dedicated server are that it can run very complex scripts and proves to be a great boon to multi-national companies. The big companies need to lease a dedicated server as their requirements are high and the uptime is very considerable. Having a high quality dedicated server, you will get an uptime of almost 99.9 per cent and thus, the business of the company never hampers.
Before leasing a dedicated server, you should read the SLA carefully and then sign the deal. These dedicated servers are capable of maintaining huge databases, web oriented projects and fresh testing systems. These servers run on different operating systems. Linux is one of them and in most cases; the operating system is provided and maintained by the service provider.