Learn More About Dedicated Servers (Part I)

The dedicated servers can be configured according to the personal needs of the client and receive updates of hardware and software whenever necessary.The advantage of using dedicated hosting in accordance with the customer is able to rely on technical staff accredited by hosting company, rather than build a team staff by your own.

In contrast, there is a shared hosting service, where only one server is shared by several clients so that each has a share of hosting, and a share of data traffic is equivalent to 2 or 4 GB on most plans offered. Naturally, the service of shared hosting comes with much more affordable price costing on average around 1-2% of their dedicated servers hosting services.

Long ago, owning a dedicated server was a real luxury. Besides the machine the user needed a dedicated link that had tuition at a very high value. So many chose to pay for a shared hosting plan, as the solution was more accessible to those who needed to put a site online.

The “UK Dedicated Servers” has also presented different characteristics, worked as a server with restricted access within the local network that had a unique role to share printers, files and resources with other computers on the network, talking about the “non-dedicated server “It was a normal desktop, used as a kind of storage and accumulation of tasks, such as sharing files or a printer.

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This post was written by admin on June 9, 2010

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Reboot scheduling for Dedicated Server

As a dedicated server owner you have ability to reboot/shutdown your server anytime you want, as you have root access to your server so you can reboot your server as per your wish. your affordable web hosting service provider may also help you for the same but if you are planning to reboot your server at some specific time then you should be aware of managing scheduled task, with windows OS you can easily shutdown/restart your server but if you want to restart your server at some specific time then you need to have PsShutdown command line utility installed on your server.

Firstly you will have to download PsShutdown application on your server.
Now you will have to open Windows command prompt via Start > Run > cmd and enter the following command to schedule your reboot properly:

c:> at TIME c: \FolderName\psshutdown.exe –r –f –c –t 10 -accepteula

You have to specify required time frame when you want to reboot your server at “TIME”
i.e. if you wanted to reboot at 4am, you’d enter: c:> at 4:00am …
You will have to replace FolderName with the location of the directory where you have stored PsShutdown
The –codes are as follows :
-s shuts down your Windows server
-r reboots your Windows server
-f forces all applications to exit even if they are running in the background, etc
-c allows your shutdown or reboot to be canceled
-t specifies the countdown in seconds until the machine reboots or shuts down.

Eukhost provide 24×7 support, so you can contact them at any point of time and they will reboot the server on your request within couple of minutes. They do provide corporate email hosting, Affordable Web hosting Plans.

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