Improving The Efficiency Of A Business With Privately Owned Dedicated Servers
There are a lot of companies today who are competing for the same business which makes it very competitive. Some industries are tougher than others but for any company that wants to get ahead it's a question of finding ways to improve the efficiency and smooth running of the company. Businesses which rely heavily on technology and computers can often cut costs and improve efficiency by buying their own dedicated servers. The reason why efficiency is improved is because the company then has full control of the network and therefore can fully customize the servers to meet the needs of the company and its customers more fully. One example of this would be when a company uses a specially designed portal which helps customers to achieve certain tasks. This added benefit for customers in turn makes the company more competitive and so will lead to more sales and increased revenue by the end of the fiscal year. In regards to storing the dedicated servers many companies choose to use their own in-house data centre which is essentially one location within a building where all the servers and equipment are stored. The rooms usually have fireproof walls and dampers on the air conditioning systems to prevent any damage happening to the equipment either through fire or contaminants in the air. |  |
Special cooling systems are also set up to regulate the temperature so that the equipment isn't affected as a particularly hot room can stop the servers from working properly. Some data centres also have heating units as backups in case the temperature drops below a certain level. So in a nutshell data centres are tightly controlled rooms which are also usually guarded with high security measures such as 24 hour serveilance.
When it comes to backing up the servers one of the most wildly use methods is to use tape as it's cost-effective and can work as a completely separate entity so that if anything was to happen to the servers it wouldn't affect the backup tape whatsoever. The reason being is that tape is completely off-line so isn't affected by any of the problems that servers connected to a network are faced with.
ServerSpace and many other hosting providers supply what is called a Raid 1 dedicated hosting server which is essentially two hard drives that work together in that one hard drive stores the information and handles all processes while the second hard drive automatically takes an imprint of the first. This is an ongoing process and has proved to be very beneficial to a lot of companies.
When it comes to data centres whether owned by an individual or company the same twin hard drive setup is often used. The only difference is that one account holder with a hosting provider may only have one dedicated server where as a company may have 3, 4 or even 10 servers running within the data centre. So those are the two main ways that dedicated servers are backed up in data centres but individuals running small operations may only bother using a CD rom depending on the amount of data that needs to be stored.
Unfortunately some companies may struggle with the costs of setting up an in-house data centre as it can be quite expensive along with the additional costs of staffing and day to day running. This is why dedicated data centres have sprung up everywhere and is the perfect answer for a company that doesn’t have the space or money to invest in a data centre.
Another benefit to using a data centre is colocation which basically allows the costs of bandwidth usage within a data centre to be shared. It’s the same idea as a company buying wholesale to reduce costs and by having 100 companies share the costs of bandwidth it works out to be much cheaper than if a single company was to pay for it individually.
So there is no doubt that having privately owned dedicated servers can make a real difference to a company’s performance and bottom line and there are plenty of options for storing and maintaining the servers no matter what size of company you have.
