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Mar
28
Posted on 28-03-2012
Filed Under (Dedicated Servers) by Paul Lopez

Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 is the basic solution with reference to a Windows Dedicated Server. It provides a great performance with astonishing features for your personal or business requirements.

BODHost.com offers a large range of windows dedicated servers with all versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. You can choose the Web Edition, Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Data Center Edition.

The dedicated server windows and ASP.net offer many features, such as:

  • Supports multiple simultaneous connections.
  • Internet Information Services (IIS 6.0 and 7.0) that offers great performance.
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Fully compatible with Plesk control panel developed by Parallels.
  • Supports multiple scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, cgi-bin, Python, etc …
  • Scripting mail components (ASPEmail, ASPmail, Jmail, CDOSYS, etc …)
  • RDP access through particular IP addresses by using windows default firewall
  • FrontPage Extensions
  • etc …

Read the following different characteristics of each edition of Windows 2008 and one you should choose:

Web Edition: Windows Server 2008 web edition’s main objective is to serve as an application hosting. This version can also be accessed via Remote Desktop Protocol. The web edition is very well integrated with IIS and .Net. It allows customers to quickly accomplish many different web applications.

However, there are some limitations to the web edition. It is available in 32 and 64 bit version, supports four physical processors in 32 and 64 bit environments and requires up to or minimum 2 GB of memory (RAM). It does not support Active Directory or the full version of the MS SQL database but it supports Ms SQL Server Express Edition.

Standard Edition: This version of Windows Server integrates all the necessary tools of Microsoft server systems. It can act as a web server, file server, print server, the application server (IIS, .Net), emailing services, streaming and more.

The windows dedicated server with standard edition also has a wide range of hardware support. It may take up to four physical processors in 32 and 64 bit environments. For 32 bit, up to 4 GB of RAM is supported and for 64 bit, you can install up to 32 GB of RAM. It is geared towards small to medium sized businesses.

Enterprise Edition: This version of Windows Server 2008 offers an even increased hardware support. You can install up to eight physical processors with up to 64 GB of memory on 32 bit version. For 64 bit, you can go up to 2 TB of memory.

It fully supports Microsoft’s Active Directory. It extends the Ms SQL and provides support for work group versions of SQL server. This is a quite powerful solution for dedicated hosting.

Data Center Edition: This is a top end product of Windows Server 2008 version, mainly considered to complete the critical requirements of the enterprise businesses.

The data center edition is also available with 32 bit and 64 bit versions and supports 64 GB of memory on 32 bit systems and up to 2 TB of memory (RAM) on a 64 bit system environment. In addition, this edition supports a minimum of 8 processors and maximum of 64 processors.

Note: Minimum 10 GB space requires is required to setup but 40 GB or greater is recommended.. However, a server with more than 16 GB RAM may require more disc space.

Guest Instances included with Operating System for virtualized environment: Web Edition – None, Standard Edition – 1, Enterprise Edition – 4, Data Center Edition – unlimited.

All these versions of Windows Server 2008 support the Parallels Plesk Control Panel. It is a management interface that allows you to completely manage your dedicated server and run hosting applications on it.

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Aug
08
Posted on 08-08-2011
Filed Under (Dedicated Servers) by Admin1

A website in today’s time is a must for individuals and businesses to reach their customers worldwide. A provider of dedicated server hosting offers individuals and businesses the platform and web space to develop their website. Dedicated web hosting can be of several types – virtual private server hosting, dedicated server hosting (Linux/Windows).

The dedicated hosting is a type of service where the provider has exclusive and absolute control of the server. This means that the server is not a common entity for other people or companies.

Linux Dedicated Servers:

Some of the basic features of Linux dedicated hosting include:

  1. High quality service with attractive prices
  2. Round the clock support
  3. Robust security features
  4. Speed bandwidth of 100 mbps/port link speed combined with other network connections between  data centers.
  5. Using state of the art equipment and network design
  6. Installing Failover
  7. Automatic data backup facility
  8. Latest anti-virus protection

Windows Dedicated Servers:

When we talk about the hosting solutions, then one thing need to be said, there are not the similarities among various hosting platforms. Now we are going to see the benefits of Window dedicated server which is regarded as the top for large and mid-sized businesses. Windows servers are also come with   affordable rates. Following points are primarily meant to give straightforward answers to those advantages that are hidden behind the rumors of price factor.

Following points are some of the advantages of using Windows dedicated server hosting;

  1. Administrators deploy and manage SLA based policies on multiple domains and sites, with the help of the user interface,
  2. Deploying an OS is easier. For example, Windows Server 2008 R2 is the most widely used OS for dedicated servers because of its security, usability and reliability
  3. Configure your file server is easier. For example, Windows SharePoint Services is the ideal platform for creating Web sites for information sharing and team productivity. It can manage sites within or outside an organization, and implementing database clustering
  4. Web services are easy to find, share and reuse. For example, universal description, discovery and integration of Windows Server 2008 R2 is a flexible and dynamic platform for Web services
  5. This accommodation offers a secure and open infrastructure
  6. It reduces the total cost of ownership through server consolidation and use of the latest technology.
  7. Easy and hassle-free, creating dynamic websites for Internet and Intranet.
  8. This type of accommodation to improve the protection and availability of vital documents.
  9. Rapid deployment of applications for creating high performance web applications clearly.
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