Want to save money and avoid risks. Server hosting needs to pay attention to these points

With the expansion of the company's scale, the virtual host or the server set up in its own company will be difficult to meet the needs in terms of bandwidth and stability. Hosting will be put on the agenda. This article describes some of the server hosting. Precautions.

Managed servers can be small and small

Many friends know that renting a location in the computer room is not cheap. For small companies, although they want to save money in the initial investment, they must learn how to save, not to save the province. The hosted host is recommended to host a 1U rack-mounted server. Although the initial hardware cost is higher, it is more cost-effective in the long run, because the hosting fee for the telecommunications room is calculated according to how much 1U per year, if your server is too High, no doubt more will have to pay more hosting costs, for example, in a computer room in Beijing, hosting 1U server 4000 yuan /year, hosting 2U server will be 6000 yuan /year, it can be seen that 1U server in the field of hosting It is very practical. Hosting 1U servers is certainly the least expensive compared to hosting other kinds of servers (such as 2U servers, tower servers, etc.). So, to go to the hosting, please take out the accessories in your tower server and put them into the 1U server chassis. This will save you a lot of money. Think about it, the server is to be hosted for many years. How much money to save?

The risk of server hosting companies

1. The price of low-cost service providers is amazing.

Nowadays, the price of hosting is mixed, and the same 1U host is hosted. The expensive price is 8,000 yuan/year, and the cheap one is only 2,000 yuan/year. The reason is so many, although it can't be said to be expensive, it must be good, but don't think that the cheaper the better. So where is the low-cost service provider? In fact, there is a very important factor in the size of the service provider. Is it possible to operate consistently? Because the threshold for hosting services is low and the management is not very strict. Two college students can rent a cabinet to the computer room. However, small companies have too many unstable factors in personal services. In my experience, 80% of them will change in half a year. Once there is economic fluctuation or the rent of the computer room rent is too small, it will not be used, or change places. If you change IP, it will be miserable. Don't think that this is rare. In fact, this situation is now a majority.

2. There are times when running events

The technical strength of many small companies is too weak, which is not obvious when maintaining more than a dozen servers. More, the drawbacks are displayed, such as dozens of servers, one or two technicians are very difficult to maintain. More customers, the problem will naturally increase, crash, restart, slow, go to the machine room maintenance line, take the customer to the machine room, anti-virus, machine room problems, etc., no matter what the problem, the customer feels that it is a hosting problem, the customer in the middle of the night Playing cell phone roaring is a common occurrence. Originally, there is less money to collect. Once the follow-up is less, the capital turnover will only go out. You have to continue to maintain these servers until the end of the year. Can you say that you can not bother? I am bored, the phone is off, who is in love, huh, huh. This is not new. A few days ago, a buddy dropped more than 40 machines and went to vacation. The mobile phone stopped forever. I am eager to give some help to my friends.

Of course, I have not demeaning the small company. I feel that as long as the small company is serious in doing things, responsible and has endurance, it is completely optional, but some things are really not transferred by human will. I saw a lot of small companies and started to be ambitious. In less than half a year, most of them were less than three months old. Because during this period, there are not many customers, and there are many troublesome things. Many companies are not going to die, and they fall. Sometimes it really doesn't go too far, you think about two people, come in the middle of the night, the server has a problem, you have to go to the computer room, the customer's phone is constantly on the move, the momentum is awkward, the machine room dragging and pulling, there is a problem is not solved, you Can you say that you can not go bankrupt?

Once again, I would like to advise those who want to host the host. If you want to put hundreds of websites on the server in the future, you should be careful. If there is a problem, as long as one or two companies are interrupted by the server, When you report to the Industry and Commerce Bureau, you will be miserable. ? If you close the door, you should try to choose a large company with strong specifications, at least not to end up with the phone and evaporate.

1. For the first time, you may want to check the ICP certificate.

If you are the first to host, you want to start a business on this server and dig out the first gold in your life. Don't consider "small companies" without icp licenses. It is a basic principle to lock in large companies with good qualifications, large scale, high reputation and high reputation. Even if you spend thousands of dollars, it is worthwhile. In the future, you will understand why. .

2. Try to cross unnecessary middlemen (intermediaries)

Try to cross unnecessary middlemen (intermediaries), less winding, this is not all to save money (of course this It is also one of the factors), because the more intermediaries, the more unstable factors in the future, and it may be difficult to do so. Try to find those hosting providers who rent cabinets directly from the machine room. A friend asked if it is best to directly host the computer room. I think it's not a bad idea, but sometimes it's more expensive to host directly in the computer room. The price is much more expensive than that of the middleman. Because the computer room is mainly for companies that rent cabinets, the customers who are sporadic hosting servers are not very valued, and the service is not necessarily. Keep up with good hosting providers.

3. Don't rush to inspect the computer room, it is recommended to first check the service provider

Remember, don't ask the service provider to meet in the computer room, because the inspection of the computer room is the second, it is essential to inspect the service provider. Going to the service provider's company, is the house big? How many people are there? Can't scale? Can't technology work? Is history long? The general service providers can't wait to see you in the luxurious computer room, but remember that the computer room is luxurious, and the people's computer room will not take any responsibility for you. If you have problems, you only have to find a service provider.

Don't choose a website with no fixed telephones and fixed places to do hosting, especially those who only leave PHS, Shenzhouxing, QQ number, E-mail, such people will evaporate at any time, don't look at them. The online phone talks to you hotly, and it is vague when you are serious, so don't leave the machine where they are, otherwise you will not be able to report the case if the machine is lost.

4. Investigate the computer room to focus on its scale, history

Although the inspection of the computer room is mainly, it is necessary to check it out. Don’t just listen to the service provider to brag about the bandwidth, the speed is good, depends on The scale and history of the computer room. Now there are many computer rooms in Beijing. From time to time, new computer rooms are emerging. They are all telecommunications. People say that they are telecom-class computer rooms. They are not said to be telecommunications. Don’t misunderstand, huh, huh. The service provider may give you the speed to test the website face to face, but the bandwidth is good and not necessarily good forever. This is a circumstance, but it is a well-known law in the industry. A new computer room was originally because of the small number of machines, so the speed must be relatively fast, but this new computer room takes into account the initial start-up interest, and the total export to the Internet backbone is often small. After a period of operation, the customer will be slower. This stage will not be very long, because the new computer room will always attract tenants at low prices, and soon it will be overcrowded and many new computer rooms will not keep up with talents, equipment, experience and regulations, leading to many weird problems, such as win2000 machines. The freebsd machine is slow; once the accident occurs, the speed of solving the problem is very slow; often interrupt service overhaul and so on. There is also a general appearance of the computer room. For example, it is more open in a four- or five-star building. This can't explain why you should look at the old-fashioned old machine room, such as Nantong server hosting. Don't think that the old computer room equipment is fresh. In fact, it can operate stably for so long, and its accumulated talents, experience, equipment, reputation, and rules are exactly what the new computer room lacks.

When doing server hosting, if the server is installed and configured by yourself, you need to pay attention to the following:

The server must have a test run in your local time (3-4 days). Only servers that have been tested for a few days can be said to be stable. Some customers send the server immediately after installing the server (even if it is not configured yet), which may cause problems, which will delay your time. Installing the WINDOWS system requires all the modifications, including Internet upgrades, to avoid the shockwave virus on the server.

When installing the server, fix the spare parts (hard disk, etc.). If it is not fixed, the accessories will shake in the chassis during transportation, which may damage the hardware. We have encountered a customer because the hard disk is not available. Once fixed, the server will find the hard disk damage after it arrives at the computer room. In addition, you should pay attention to the packaging protection when you check it, and tell the shipping company to be careful.

The server hardware configuration should be stable and efficient. Don't buy some server accessories that are too cheap. If the server runs because of configuration problems, the loss will be great.

The most important point is that it is best to find those computer rooms with independent property rights, not to find an agent. First, the bandwidth is a bit discounted, and in the unlikely event that it has a major change, it will suffer huge losses!