Friends who have built a website know that choosing a good, suitable server is an important prerequisite for building a good website. When choosing a server, the general IDC operators will put forward two suggestions: buy a server and hosting to the IDC room, or directly with the IDC operator to rent a server.
We first look at the advantages of renting a server:
The benefits of renting a server is convenient and low-cost, we know that most of the servers bought after the installation of the system and software, debugging through the final after the IDC server room, then, directly rented IDC server room servers on the relative to be more trouble-free! Because after all, eliminating the transportation of the link, if the machine room is not far from the user's location that's very good to do, drive or take the car over are OK, but if the IDC room is very far from the user's location, transported over is usually very troublesome, at this time, the rent is really a good way, even if it is not a good way, but also the way of last resort, especially in the southwest and northwest areas of the server room is very little resources, those The user of the region to take their own server to hosting is really not as good as going directly to the rental.
However, renting a server room also has its shortcomings:
Users can't see what their rented servers look like in most cases, and some of the more generous carriers will be able to tell customers what brand and model of servers they have rented. However, there are very few IDCs that use self-assembled servers as a rental business in order to reduce costs, so they are able to provide the user with a simple configuration of the server information, as to what brand of motherboard or even what the motherboard chip is, these are the users of remote management of the server can only be viewed when the server.
And the biggest obstacle to buying a server and then putting it in a server room hosting is the price. But now with the lower cost of servers, most of the professional customers and large customers have changed to use their own procurement equipment and then take the hosting way, because the advantages of self-purchase is more obvious:
Using their own way to assemble a server, or even half of the new parts and half of the second-hand parts assembled from the price is not too high; want to high-performance users can come up with enough money to buy a 4-way or even an 8-way server. The money to buy 4-way or even 8-way products, some focus on brand and stability of the user can also directly buy IBM, HP stream of the first-line manufacturers of products. In addition, some users may want to use a more specific operating system and software, or prior to the need to COPY a large amount of information to the server hard disk, these operations are not very convenient to operate the remote control room servers, generally debugging or copying the good and then take to the room hosting.
By comparing the above two ways, it can be concluded that for places far away from the server room, you can choose to rent a server, eliminating the need to travel. If you are not very far from the server room, it is best to buy your own server and then put the server room hosting, even if the price will be more expensive than renting.
In fact, it's not impossible to balance price and stability at the same time. There are a number of carriers that offer VPS hosting, which is a product between colocation and web hosting, and it's a far more advanced form of space rental than web hosting.
VPS hosting allows users to have full control of an independent operating system, which allows them to install programs and customize applications. This allows users to install their own programs, customize their own applications, and so on. Users don't have to worry about whether certain components are supported or not, or whether there is a limit on the number of simultaneous visitors, etc., as they did when using web hosting.