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Questions tagged [dedicated-server]

In the web hosting industry, a dedicated server refers to a server which is leased in its entirety to a single customer, usually an individual or small business.

In the web hosting industry, a dedicated server refers to a server which is leased in its entirety to a single customer, usually an individual or small business.

Contrast with a which is a virtualized server. In this arrangement is used to share the resources of a single physical server among several customers.

Web hosting providers offer these services to customers who require specialized services not available in typical environments.

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Why is dedicated server cheaper than Cloud VPS?

I need to scale my infrastructure and do not really understand why on my provider (OVH), dedicated server seems to be a better value than a cloud VPS instance. For ~55€ you can get a dedicated server with 4 cores and 32 GB ram For ~42€ you only get…
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Migrating dedicated server and changing name server IP address

I want to transfer my dedicated server to another service provider/host and I want to ask about the name server IP address changes. My old nameservers are ns1.mydomain.com , ns2.mydomain.com and the new servers will also be called ns1.mydomain.com,…
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What's the best method to achieve full redundancy in a dedicated server?

I've been reading about full redundancy to achieve almost if not 100% uptime for your mission critical applications (handling financial data) running in a dedicated server, but I still can't wrap my head on how I could do this. 1) Let's say I have…
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How to use all hard drives in dedicated server

I bought dedicated server and after installing Plesk panel I can see under the server information tab it is showing me the total storage available: 1.7TB. lsblk output is: But I had bought server with 4TB of storage (2000GBx2) Is there any way to…
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Dedicated Server or Shared Hosting? How can you tell?

I understand this might be a difficult question to answer from the research I have done so far, but here it goes: I don't have access to my so called dedicated server. This is managed by a 3rd party business. However I would like to try and clarify…
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Web Server: Need VPN?

We are starting a new web development company and know very little about web servers. The hosting company is wanting to lease to us a VPN appliance (Sonicwall TZ215). Do we need this or is the a hardware firewall sufficient for protecting the…
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Single CMS site on dedicated server

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? We're about to launch a huge website, expecting a HUGE traffic especially in the first few weeks. It will be a Joomla CMS based community website. We expect 20k-50k unique visits each…
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Create an Alias for my DNS

I own a dedicated Server in OVH, and my DNS are : Primary DNS : ks221074.kimsufi.com Secondary DNS : ns.kimsufi.com My OS is Centos 5, and I don't have a strong experience with Linux, I installed WHM/cPanel in the server. I want to create an…
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Are self Self-healing Cloud and Traditional Failover Boxes basically the same?

Does it still make sense to setup your own failover system (HAproxy + 2 or more servers for example) when self healing cloud seems like a practical solution? They seem to do the same job or am I missing something?
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How to create an IP for virtual server

I want to ask something maybe noobish. When i purchase an Virtual server(VPS) they give me an IP for that server. I want to know how they create the IP and set it for the virtual server. Do they buy it from the internet provider or ? I know that…
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Installing Windows over Linux on a Hetzner server

I have a remote dedicated server from Hetzner which you can usually only install Linux on, because I haven't paid the ridiculous 25 euros/month for Windows. However, they have KVM access and you can mount a .iso file, but it's buggy and not…
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Where to start a dedicated / VPS hosting small buisness

I hope I'm posting in the right place, this site seemed the most relevant to my question. Anyway, one of my friends and I want to invest in a hosting company, we don't really know where to start, we have the funds and are planning on buying 5…
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What to upgrade, RAM over capacity

I'm currently running a series of sites on a single VPS. My RAM usage has been continually going over capacity and, even after upgrading, I seem to be using all of my allotted RAM and burstable RAM... It seems like I should just get a dedicated…
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how to connect my server to internet

We have a project which very resource consuming in databse part and we found that database hosting which is satisfied our needs is lot money consuming. We want to built own server and connect our database to it. The question is how to make our…
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Raid array showing only the capacity of one disk

I've a dedicated server with an raid array with two disks of 1TB each, this is what I get with mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 1.1 Creation Time : Wed Aug 1 20:20:14 2012 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 975186812 (930.01 GiB 998.59…
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