What to consider before purchasing a dedicated server?

There are a number of factors that as a business person you should consider before buying a Dedicated Server and those are the following:

1. The technology that is used in selected dedicated server like 
2. Operating System, RAM capacity, Bandwidth, Performance, Managed or Un-managed, Hardware Substitution Awareness, etc.
3. Needs for the Business that is like E-commerce, administration of heavy files, Security management like Firewall protection, protection from DDOs attacks, Brute Force attacks and other malicious activities.
4. Cost is also the main factor that as a business person you should always consider and cost should be checked against these factors like monthly cost, Software licensing charges, the cost for up-gradation of different components, Charges for Downtime, etc.
5. Support, this is an essential factor too for choosing a dedicated server whereas a business person, you should always check whether the provider is giving fulltime support or not meaning support of 24x7365.
6. Control Panel which is another very crucial thing to be confirmed for the dedicated server which you going to choose.

Let’s have some detailed explanation of the above-mentioned factors that as a business person, you should always take into consideration.

Technologies

There are different OS available like Linux based(Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, etc), Microsoft OS. Based on your specifications, you can choose one os for your hosting server. It varies.

on different specifications. For example,  If you want to host for open sources like PHP/apache/MySQL Ruby or Rails, then you should always go for a server that uses Linux as OS. 

The RAM capacity also matters like if the RAM has good capacity then it is expected to perform better way but again this depends on the kind of hosting services you require for your site.

Bandwidth is another thing that confirms how much your data sharing or transaction can happen in a given band like you can have unlimited bandwidth as well as limited bandwidth depending upon your website services and applications. It is seen that game, chat or multimedia application needs better bandwidth and performance support and good RAM and Processor-based server.

Managed Dedicated server comes with better hosting services like doing everything on your behalf from OS installation to basic setup of your website, database, and files along with all the technical support you need at any time as per need whereas in un-managed one, you only can do the basic things like controlling, administering and accessing your server.

There is another thing that you need to consider as well as if any substitution is possible for Hardware in case of a dispute.

Needs for the business

There is another thing that as a business person you should first think of what kind of business website you have and which are the services and applications you have in your site. Your consideration should be based on high-end security management, high accessibility, administering heavyweight files at the front end and if it is an E-commerce business website then the Dedicated server is the first choice.

Cost

There are different policies over cost management like tax included in monthly expenses or not, verifying proprietary OS and revelation software licensing charges, Scalability charges, component up-gradation charge, etc.

Support

24x7x365 support means when you need then you get. A dedicated server with this scheme is always beneficial as there will be the technical team for helping you every time when you need it.

Control Panel

This amazing element has to be your requirement for the server you choose because if any dedicated server hosting scheme comes with this feature then basically you as a user can have the interface from which you can manage your server and all server-based activities you require.