Hardware Bottleneck
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Avoiding Hardware Bottleneck

The most significant thing to realize is that even using the most expensive hardware components do not guarantee uninterrupted services. A Bottleneck, this is what you do not want to face in your hosting business, except for its details on this web page :)

A number of big and small hardware objects build up a server. Now each one of them has a possibility of becoming a bottleneck. You ordered the best performing processor, but not a great deal of RAM, the processor will be under used waiting for the kernel to swap in and out the memory pages, because memory is too small to fit at least the most used ones. If you have a lot of memory and a fast processor and a fast disk, but a slow controller - the performance will be poor, and you will have wasted the money. Of course use a NIC that does not create a bottleneck. If the NIC is slow, the whole service is slow.

This is why sometimes you come across those very tempting prices on dedicated servers. All seems perfect until you realize that one of the pieces in the jigsaw puzzle doesn't fit and is sure to create a bottleneck. Those who do not realize this in the beginning will have to pay that purposely-higher price on upgrading the problem initiating part.

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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