Challenges associated with server maintenance and its solutions

With the prices of web related services coming down day by day, many companies are interested in making their own servers and try to maintain it on their own for which these companies are investing more amounts towards its hardware resources and human resources. These companies are installing dedicated servers and hiring technical persons to look after it with its technical requirements like software installation, hardware configurations and settings optimization for better performance of their web applications.

Are these companies able to maintain these servers without any issues on their own and why they prefer dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers give more feasibility in maintaining a web application with its permissions to access roots of the server, install software, upgrading and down grading the configurations etc. Bigger companies are always interested to have servers configured and maintained on their own and which they do it by investing time and amounts in arranging facilities for these servers to perform well without any issues, but still many companies fail in achieving best of a server’s performance post arranging all these facilities. A dedicated server needs a highly trained technical person to maintain it by accessing its roots to optimize the web applications that has been hosted on it and needs uninterrupted power and internet supply to it which demand dedicated power lines and internet lines to it which further increase the cost to the company.

How to overcome these challenges?

Companies can overcome this challenge in three ways with the support of best hosting service providing companies in the market. The primary solution is Co-location service in which the companies which are maintaining the server on their own shift their server to the data center location of the service providing company where they give continuous uninterrupted power supply, internet to the server and look after it 24x7 with service options like software installation, data backups, upgrading or downgrading, maintaining uptimes etc. which reduces the cost to the company in terms of its resources and maintenance activities.

The second solutions is having the dedicated server configured with the service providing company depending on the companies' requirement and accessing it remote desktop connection to maintain the web application. The hosting company will look after all kind of maintenance activities related to the server.

The third solution is configuring a Cloud VPS Hosting server which performs exactly like a dedicated servers and gives all kinds of root level access to configure it to the user. These were cost effective and come with all features of dedicated servers. These virtual private servers were configured over a dedicated server with resources allocated to it for its exclusive usage from a dedicated server using Hypervisor, software that creates virtual private servers over a dedicated server, and companies can opt for Managed vps hosting in which the users need not to worry about its maintenance as the service providing company will look after it, users just need to make atmost usage of it to optimize the web application hosted on it to perform well in the market.