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Dedicated Server Guide
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Upgrading To Your Own Dedicated Server:
Upgrading from a plain reseller plan to an autonomous dedicated server is not an easy task. To some it might be as daunting as their first meeting with advanced mathematics.

However, there comes a time for every profitable web hosting business, hopefully yours too, when the above-mentioned upgrade is necessary. Among the plenty of reasons, some prominent ones are:

  • The ability to offer reseller plans of your own.
  • The need to buy web space and bandwidth in bulk.
  • To move away the websites of your hosting customers from those hosted by your actual provider, resulting in faster serving up of your customers' web pages.
  • To install custom applications on your server and offer more web based softwares or features to your clients thereby creating competitive advantage in an otherwise 'perfectly competitive' industry.
This guide has been written, keeping in mind, an average hosting reseller not coming from the technical background. And with the simple to use automated tools that this industry offers to resellers, trust me that there are plenty of us!

Server OS ... Before Anything Else
Hardware Issues
Managed VS Unmanaged Server
Considering A Virtual Private Server
Data Center & Server Connectivity Issues
Web Server Administration
DNS & BIND Overview

Remote Administration:
The ability to remotely administer your web server and its associated applications is usually available, depending on the web host provider. Tools such as PC Anywhere and VNC are excellent tools when working with a dedicated Windows server, while shell access is generally used to administer Unix and Linux boxes.

PC Anywhere
VNC
Ensim Pro

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