If you require lots of power, bandwidth and space to run your site, a Managed Dedicated Server solution may be the best way to go. Here at cpwebhosting.net, we have long been in the business of providing each client with extraordinary care, up to and including all the latest software patches and security measures. If you are looking for something hassle-free and powerful, this is by far the wisest choice.

What do you get from a Managed Dedicated Server that you wouldn’t otherwise? The short answer is peace of mind. Cpwebhosting can take care of everything you need for optimum performance, from software upgrades to backups, firewalls and all the painstaking maintenance you would otherwise have to outsource to a system administrator. It is a complete approach to hosting, and one that can easily pay for itself in convenience and uptime in a matter of months.

Of course, the details of such maintenance are only part of the story. The rest is what you get standard with a managed dedicated server package, including email accounts, data storage and the ability to host a wide array of applications on the server. We can even help with commerce features such as PCI compliant hosting and software licensing–just ask.

There are not many companies in Seattle that combine outstanding services with both cutting edge technologies and attention to detail. Do not hesitate to contact us anytime with questions about managed solutions, collocation or any other options you see on our site.

Managed hosting is a dedicated server that is accompanied by a full suite of technical support, maintenance and monitoring services. This differs from dedicated Web hosting, where customers are provided with their own servers but are still responsible for virtually all administrative and maintenance duties.
Managed hosting are meant for those websites that are designed to host busy e-commerce sites and dynamic, database driven Web pages. Perfect for organizations that don’t have the time or capital to invest in server administration.

MANAGED SERVER = DEDICATED SERVER + COMPLETE SUPPORT TO SERVER ADMINISTRATION

A managed server will come equipped with all the features of a dedicated server, plus instead of leaving most of the administrative tasks to the customer, a managed provider will typically handle that as well.

Hosting companies offer a supplementary suite of features and services that related to managed hosting, including application and database management, high-availability services and load balancing. These hosting companies will back up their services with performance guarantees and Service Level Agreements.
Conclusion on managed hosting.

If you\’re unsure about which service to choose, give serious consideration to choosing a managed server. While taking the managed route is more expensive, it is also much more reassuring for the inexperienced administrator. Remember, you can always downgrade your account to an unmanaged service later, once you\’ve acquired some expertise in server administration. Though once you opt for the personal attention you will receive through a managed host, you might think twice of turning into an unmanaged service later on.

Upgrading your VPS account to an unmanaged dedicated server with cpwebhosting.net is very easy.Only you have to follow some quick steps and you are all set to work on our efficient unmanaged dedicated server.

1. Contact the sales department to sign up for a dedicated server.
2. Once your server is available, publish your HTML and SQL database content to the new server (we will do a one-time file copy of your html folder for you if you request it; you are responsible for copying over your sql database).
3. Request that we export your secure SSL certificate for you, if you have one.
4. Make any neccessary changes to your code, and set up your dedicated server as appropriate for your business needs.
5. Send an e-mail to support@maximumasp.com when you need us to move domains in DNS and your customer control panel.
   NOTE: Mail settings for all of your domains will remain the same.
6. Cancel your VPS or LBS account when it is no longer needed.

As you may have noticed, this process will result in a new Account ID, SQL database, IP Address(es), etc.

You may not keep your existing database for the shared VPS or LBS account unless you plan on keeping the shared account associated with it.

We provide top notch dedicated server services which will help you to grow and establish with all the services.

What is a Dedicated Server?
Dedicated Servers give a company the flexibility of having a dedicated machine for their website(s). All dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service are internet based where the client or website owner took an entire server on rent and it is not shared with anyone. This provides flexibility and reliability, as organizations or client have full control over the server. They have independence of choosing their own operating system, hardware or anything.They rule the server and have all the authorities of it. They may load multiple websites on their servers.

Bandwidth and Connectivity

Bandwidth is a fundamental parameter that determines the quality of web hosting service provider. E-commerce websites that sell products or services online are likely to have high volumes of traffic to their websites. More web traffic requires increased data transfer levels and thus higher bandwidth.It is usually represented in bits (of data) per second (bps). Access providers provide the connectivity that supplies the bandwidth, or data transfer rate, through various connection points across a network or multiple data centers, where dedicated servers are located.

By securing multiple vendors for connectivity and using redundant hardware, providers are able to guarantee higher uptimes; usually between 99-100%.

Operating System Support

Factors like availability, price and familiarity, often determines which operating systems to choose for dedicated servers. Variations of Linux, an open-source operating system, are often included at no additional charge to customers, whereas, Microsoft requires additional license fees, which can increase the monthly cost of a dedicated server operating on a Windows operating system. The Microsoft Windows Server, is offered through the Microsoft SPLA program. Commercial versions of Linux are offered to web hosting providers on a monthly fee basis. The monthly fee typically provides OS updates through a network, using specific applications. Other operating systems available from the open source community at no charge, include centOS, Fedora Core, FreeBSD, Debian, among others.

Support operating systems utilized, usually depend upon the management level afforded by individual dedicated server plan. Operating system support may include updates to the core system in order to acquire the latest security fixes, patches, and system-wide vulnerability resolutions. Updates to core operating systems include kernel upgrades, service packs, application updates, and security patches that keep server secure and safe. Operating system updates and support relieves the burden of server management from the dedicated server owner.

Have you come into some difficulties while running website with high traffic and security requirements? Do you need professional and reliable dedicated web server hosting to meet the needs of your growing website? Welcome to cpwebhosting that is proud to recommend you the most comprehensive range of dedicated hosting services with unmatched level of flexibility, customization and power as compared to shared hosting solutions. Our dedicated website hosting plans are the best choice for many online businesses and huge community or informational websites. If you need full access to your own sever, more power and flexibility, stop here as cpwebhosting is here to offer you the best dedicated web hosting services with top-notch security, connectivity and support.

By choosing cpwebhosting as your professional managed dedicated web server hosting company, you can be rest assured that we\’ll take care of your web server running while you manage your websites. Whether you are planning to boost your sales or establish secure presence on the Web, cpwebhosting as well-known dedicated hosting services provider is here to represent you the most extensive collection of dedicated website hosting solutions to meet any needs and budget.

The impressive range of services, features, tools and resources included in our dedicated web server hosting plans allow you have full control on your dedicated server and websites running. You are just a few clicks away from getting your website up and running with excellent dedicated hosting services and unparalleled support 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. We, at cpwebhosting, measure our success by your success and do our best to let you adapt in fast-changing business environment.

Nowadays more and more businesses are getting online so you have to find the most professional and reliable dedicated web hosting services to ensure the best level of functionality and performance for your websites. Would you like to experience unsurpassed dedicated web server hosting solutions and save your budget at the same time? We offer you the most flexible and secure dedicated hosting services at a fraction of price other companies can provide. Get to know more about dedicated website hosting plans by cpwebhosting and choose the one that will meet all your current and future needs.

\’Unmanaged dedicated servers\’ – this is a pretty uninviting term to many, especially the non-gurus, but in most cases is not as \’non-servicing\’ as it seems. In fact, I think someone one day soon, ( who knows maybe me ) will coin a new phrase to replace the term \’unmanaged\’ – similar to how \’used cars\’ is now \’pre-owned\’ or how \’apartment complexes\’ are now \’rental communities\’. The truth is that unless you just picked a lousy provider or have unreasonable expectations, unmanaged hosting offers more service and support than most think.

The Difference:
While exact definitions vary among providers, generally speaking managed hosting means your provider takes complete or near complete care of your server. This can include anything from basic system maintenance and patches to applications maintenance, security, monitoring, etc. Someone that needs dedicated hosting and wants to rely on their host for pretty much anything and everything regarding their server needs to strike a relationship with a managed service provider. Full blown managed services involve lots of skilled people hours. Not only that, since every managed customer is unique, it\’s hard for a managed provider to be overly systematic. For this – expect to pay a great deal more than today\’s budget server provider but if your needs demand it, and you choose a solid provider it should be money well spent.

Unmanaged dedicated hosting obviously refers to dedicated servers with less, little or none of the skilled people support you\’d expect to find in managed. You signup, you pay, and in a few minutes to a few hours you get a welcome email with IP address, login, FAQ\’s, etc. – Beyond that you are pretty much on your own. Relax – you are not really as own your own as it seems.

First off, most unmanaged providers do in fact offer technical support, and most that we\’ve seen is very good. If you choose unmanaged dedicated service you do need to have someone on your team that knows the technical side a good bit, but they don\’t necessarily have to be experts. While you may have to wait 12 – 24 hours or you may even have to pay extra for it, nearly all the unmanaged providers I know do have high level techs available to handle serious issues. In addition most providers give some sort of immediate reboot service. Unless you\’ve been tinkering with some critical config files or have a hardware failure, a reboot can help with a range of issues. Lastly, unmanaged providers may not support you or whatever you put on your server after you move in, but they do stand by the hardware and software they sell you. If a hard drive crashes they are going to replace it for you (although you had better be doing your backups) and if your system crashes most will fix it for you.

Linux servers are manufactured to counter high demand of application such as database management, web services and network administration and system administration. Linux servers are more preferred due to its reliability, flexibility and stability. A major part of the IT market is relying over Linux platform. Linux servers now covers 16.8 % of all server revenue; up by 2.5 points over 2009.Linux server market revenue grew 30% to $1.8 billion when compared with second quarter of 2009.It share 16.8 % part of revenue grossed by all servers.

Hardening Linux servers :

A proper procedure and policy is required to maintain a secure computing environment where unauthorized access could be prevented .For making security risks should be assessed. While open source does not hide o/s inner working, but security is the core part of Linux kernel.

Linux servers are secured by External firewalls, SSH hardening and internal privilege hardening. Further some of measures can be applied that are as following:-

• Use PAM to make user control secure. Strong password and authentication controls are critical for host with high number of shell user.
• SELinux should be used while it is complex to configure but it strengthens more granular control.
• You should prevent advancement of tools if there is large no. of shell user.
• Centralized log monitoring system should be arranged and alert must be put over more critical and important log messages.SEC or Swatch like tool should be used.

ShellShock Flaw :

ShellShock Flaw has collected huge media coverage over the time. ShellShock Flaw allows invader to execute bash commands on unauthorized and unauthenticated host. It is basically a mass of vulnerabilities. The risk depends upon how bash interprets environment variables. The systems using Bash Scripts are at the higher risk .Some measures are taken to protect form Shellshock flaw are:-

• Defense in depth should be incorporated for systems that are using bash scripts.
• SELinux and APPArmor should be engaged to limit the access of bash to what user is running.

A required attention is brought to Shell scripting security by shellshock. Migration to languages that have been designed keeping security in mind is essential since need for shell script always exists. A new language Shill has been developed by Harvard researchers with a stress over security but there is a long way to go.

Some other common attack vectors are:-

• Httpd
• Secure Shell
• DHClient
• CUPS
• Sudo
• Firefox
• Postfix

Redhat recently announced its 64 bit ARM architecture designed for datacenters. It has (TDP) thermal design power between 10 and 45watts where as traditional x86 processor has more than 90watts.Direct Server utility bills and data center running cost lowers along with power consumption.

Why Linux?

Linux has been a preferable choice because of its stability feature and better response to concurrent processes. It is able to run over a long period of time without facing any crash. The basic reason of adopting Linux is TCO (total cost of ownership). Moreover all configuration changes can be accomplished without rebooting system thus not effecting irrelevant services. The distributive nature of Linux made it acceptable choice because it does not need any SI (System identifier). In Linux; the systems are distinguished by IP addresses and names. It runs over any machine architecture and unlike its counterparts which completely depends over Intel compatible processors.

Some of the best Linux Distro :

• Fedora : It was developed around same time as Ubuntu. Fedora 21 is the new release known as fedora next. Fedoras has three releases Workstation, cloud and sever, each one is aimed to specific use-cases.Fedora21 server with its Rolekit tool is now focused over server administration and enable administrator to specify server roles .It leverages open source freelPA identity and authentication application providing secure access. The big tool is Cockpit server management which provides small scale server management.
• Ubuntu : It is one most prevalent and famous Linux Distro .it is preferable for its user friendliness. Its name is derived from a South African philosophy of ‘universal humanism’. Besides it includes various open source programs like email client thunderbird, web browser Firefox, and Libreoffice. Moreover a user can access more software from Software center Repository.
• Debian : It is one of original Linux Distro developed almost three decades ago. It is named over its founder Ian Murdock and Debra.
• Linux Mint : It is less prominent distro and has been forked in its second iteration from earlier release of Ubuntu. The developer behind Linux mint decided to release an alternate version of debian and now supporting various streams for those who wants to incorporate it in different hardware condition. It comes with Many of software which will be needed out of the box despite of being less dominant than its industry rivals.
• OpenSuse : OpenSuse was based off a German acronym Suse (Software and system evolution).The project was developed by the US firm Novell for allowing to work over its development by them who are outside the firm. It offers high configurable feature, huge scope of customization and YAST a tool for the control of entire operating system from single program.

There are many organizations who advocate for Linux adoption. In May 2014, W3techs surmised that 67.5% of top 10 million website run over some form of UNIX whereas Linux is used by 57.2% of website which uses UNIX. The (IFOSSF) international free and open source foundation has decided to accelerate and promote the adoption of FOSS (free and open source software) through civil society partnership and research.

Some other are:-

• Asian Open Source centre (AsiaOSC)
• Software LivreBrasil (a Brazilian organisation)
• Free and open source foundation of India and china.
• IBM with its Linux marketing strategy
• Linux users group

Oracle has released secure boot version of its linux, which has chain of trust in boot process. When bootloader is loaded by firmware, it checks authentication signature of bootloader with signature key stored in firmware before proceeding.

Linux software developers are striving hard to expand Linux storage and file systems. In recent years flash memory has been evolved as server primary storage and persistent memory is rendering us storage that works at DRAM speed.

• BTRFS : BTRFS is a copy on write file system that emphasis over fault tolerance and easy administration. It has advantage of handling numerous small size files and huge size files such as 16 EiB, multi-storage device support, and baked in RAID. It has extent based storage system, space-effecting indexing directories, Writable and read only snapshots, separate internal file storage system modules. The BRTFS development team is working over object level stripping and mirroring, compression methods and in band deduplications.
• CephFS : It is POSIX-compliant file system that utilizes ceph storage cluster to store data. It provides a distributed storage and file system, which relies over resilient and scalable storage model. Some expert says that CephFS is not completely ready yet. Being a distributed system, Ceph FS has to deal with multiple writes from multiple clients. Consequently that results in file lock-in situation.

So, Although Linux has many file system and able to use any kind of storage. Still there is lot of work which is to be done.

Data Center

With rapidly growing businesses, data center’s need arose to keep huge data. Although cloud is there but still company must have a network and electrical backbone which assure close monitoring and inspection. Server virtualization is an efficient way to adopt capacity in existing data center. Increase in server virtualization can reduce data center energy consumption. Companies were able to save 50% of data center energy just by virtualization and turning off which is not being used.Futher rack density should be considered to increase efficiency and capacity. If you can’t recover enough capacity after optimizing then collocation or cloud may also be the options

Disaster Recovery in Data center

Data center disaster recovery is not an option but a necessity owing to the rapid growth of IT market. As IT is pervasive in almost every business now there is requirement of 24/7 availability. As a result disaster recovery budgets are also higher than ever before. In survey of Tech Target’s Data center and reader’s choice 2013, 23% users showed disaster recovery and redundancy as a key driver for server expenditure, the sixth most popular choice.

• Your data center’s disaster recovery plan must accommodate with the high availability requirement. Disaster recovery plan may include on- site recovery plans and Mobile recover units.

1. On-site recovery plans are almost meant to save data center from mishap of power outages. Now data center are investing a huge amount over huge backup and power saving units, below ground fuel storage for generators to save from longer power outage.
2. Some companies like Sunguard, Rentsys offers mobile recovery plan includes self-contained power and weather resistance. These companies build each unit in a tractor –trailer truck that can be dispatched at requirement. Mobile recovery unit called “Mobile metro centers” are connected to Disaster recovery Company’s data center via satellite to avoid latency .It protect critical apps or whole application.
3. Some companies prefer to outsource the disaster recovery plan due to the lack of experienced IT staff or huge resources to manage it. They prefer to render the responsibility to a managed service provider or cloud hosting company. It allows them to more focus over business operation.

• It is troublesome to synchronize the disaster recovery budget with your business budget. It is necessary to keep cost down while optimizing and maintaining security for any mishap. If any company has a huge amount of data then for making data secure it is required to backup data from primary storage to disaster recovery site. This task can take your budget to uncontrollable amount. Hardware and software based WAN optimization can lower the cost. The speed of data transfer should be monitored and data hops have to happen for within a reasonable amount of time.

• Redundant copies of data at remote data center allow data center to recover damaged and malfunctioned data or launch workloads to remote system to manage traffic. It is required to carefully consider the remote storage and server network deployment needs. Redundancy means occasional virtual machine snapshots and conventional backup approaches. Some technologies like thin provisioning and data duplication satisfies remote storage system needs. Complete data backup may also affect bandwidth, so proper management of network bandwidth is also required. Server must be able to run required resources to protect data.
• Different business demands and various complexities enhance complicacies to redundancy decisions. It is worth to acquire resources but without proper configuration of those tools and compliance with business goals, outcome will not be satisfactory.

1. A data recoverability testing should also be conducted because the redundancy of data is of no use if we are not able to recover data at disastrous condition.
2. Regulatory Compliance and data retention period should also be considered as not all data is of same importance; rather some data is for contemporary use and must be deleted after a fixed period of time. IT officials should check compliance for data center redundancy.

Geographically split data center management

Geographically split data center management is able to reduce recovery time. Being Ecommerce affected market, not only it has become essential to split data centers at proper distance with little recovery time. All data center must have its direct access storage device. The network cloud plays an important role as it is the switch between two data centers. Incoming data request can be routed to any of data centre depending on some criteria with the use of proper internal plumbing.

• One data center is converging point of all data traffic. All modification and changes are done over primary storage and then it is duplicated to secondary storages. If primary storage fails, secondary storage takes its place.

Modular data center: a solution

Modular data center are also in demand. Although percentage of companies who has acquired modular data centers are less as 9% yet but other companies are also willing to join them .Modular data center is portable method of deploying data center. These data center comprises purpose engineered component to offer scalable data center capacity with various cooling and power option.

Modular data center can be classified in two forms:

1. Containerized data center in which all data center equipment is fitted in and then it can be transported to desired location. Cisco containerized data center is an example of containerized data center.
2. Flexible data center in which all data center equipment is fitted into a facility made up of pre-fabricated components that can be built frequently over a site and then it can be added as capacity is needed. It is made up of sheet metal components which is formed into four data center halls which in turn linked by a central operating building.

RFP and RFQ tips for IT managers:

RFP and RFQ are two fundamentally different thing .RFQ (Request for Quote) is the quote by an enterprise or government. RFQ takes place when IT manager are resolved about their technical requirement and has assessed the problems. The vendor has to just deliver that technology to them .RFP (Request for proposal) is used to explain certain system requirements and encountered challenges. The vendor offers with various technical configuration and architectures. Here IT vendor assess the problem and responds with specific technology

Writing wrong RFP in lack of proper knowledge may lead your business to survive over less optimal resource which will affect Quality of service level. IT personnel should state workload requirements with its dependencies, future requirements. Keep yourself away from using biased language which will mislead vendor.

As website traffic grows the shared servers can be slowed down and effects load time of the website page and also sales of the company. Many things effect load time such as page size, flash intros or a lot of slow loading graphics. These all are evaluated by web master due to the cause of server sharing with others. Further visitor retention and slow loading pages are inversely proportional to each other. It means if a page load takes 8-10 seconds then it will result in a loss of over 1/3 of sites visitors.

Http2 standard to load pages faster :

A latest version of HTTP standard promises to deliver web pages to make browsers faster that has been approved. HTTP has a best standard and it governs a communication between browser and a web server during page loading. HTTP 2.0 protocols is designed to make web page loading faster and allow consumers to read more pages, perform fast internet searches. HTTP 2.0 brings a feature of encryption also. Encryption has been pushed by Google on the web to protect privacy and cut down hacking vulnerabilities, and SPDY has encryption technology called TLS (Transport Layer Security) which is formerly called SSL for Secure Sockets. Encryption in HTTP 2.0 makes easier to adopt a new version of HTTP.

Latest SEO techniques:

There are some SEO strategies which should be considered:

Mobile friendly:

Google’s algorithm has given a positive ranking rate which can make website mobile-friendly. In today’s internet websites many visitors are using mobile devices and many are using iPad and other Tablet devices. Therefore, in this way more visitors are seeing the mobile version of website and it is beneficial for the company. Anyone can check its website’s mobile optimization quality on Mobile-Friendly Test which is developed by Google.

Security:

The websites of unwanted software will be blocked. Unwanted software decreases the security of OS. On adding a SSL 2048-bit key certificate on site will boost up the Google index ranking of website.

Unique content:

As the numbers of websites are increasing every year, Page Rank is used for websites rank. New website can get better ranking for its unique content for readers. Therefore, content should be unique. It should not duplicate other websites content otherwise it will not be considered in good ranking.

Right place right time:

Website owners should choose some latest topics on internet so that site will get more visitors. So, the number of visitors depends on the topic also.

Image optimization a tool for mobiles:

Page loading is an important for every website. If the page load is very high on mobile phones then visitors will go somewhere else. Image optimization decreases load times by lowering page weight without affecting any user’s experience. According to analysis over some random 100 websites the total image weight was 81 MB of all responsive websites. Image optimization technology and Trilibis device detection reduced the page weight of device for every class. It can be up to 43 MB for desktop browsers, 18 MB for tablets and 17 MB for smartphones.

\’Unmanaged dedicated servers\’ – this is a pretty uninviting term to many, especially the non-gurus, but in most cases is not as \’non-servicing\’ as it seems. In fact, I think someone one day soon, ( who knows maybe me ) will coin a new phrase to replace the term \’unmanaged\’ – similar to how \’used cars\’ is now \’pre-owned\’ or how \’apartment complexes\’ are now \’rental communities\’. The truth is that unless you just picked a lousy provider or have unreasonable expectations, unmanaged hosting offers more service and support than most think.

The Difference:
While exact definitions vary among providers, generally speaking managed hosting means your provider takes complete or near complete care of your server. This can include anything from basic system maintenance and patches to applications maintenance, security, monitoring, etc. Someone that needs dedicated hosting and wants to rely on their host for pretty much anything and everything regarding their server needs to strike a relationship with a managed service provider. Full blown managed services involve lots of skilled people hours. Not only that, since every managed customer is unique, it\’s hard for a managed provider to be overly systematic. For this – expect to pay a great deal more than today\’s budget server provider but if your needs demand it, and you choose a solid provider it should be money well spent.

Unmanaged dedicated hosting obviously refers to dedicated servers with less, little or none of the skilled people support you\’d expect to find in managed. You signup, you pay, and in a few minutes to a few hours you get a welcome email with IP address, login, FAQ\’s, etc. – Beyond that you are pretty much on your own. Relax – you are not really as own your own as it seems.

First off, most unmanaged providers do in fact offer technical support, and most that we\’ve seen is very good. If you choose unmanaged dedicated service you do need to have someone on your team that knows the technical side a good bit, but they don\’t necessarily have to be experts. While you may have to wait 12 – 24 hours or you may even have to pay extra for it, nearly all the unmanaged providers I know do have high level techs available to handle serious issues. In addition most providers give some sort of immediate reboot service. Unless you\’ve been tinkering with some critical config files or have a hardware failure, a reboot can help with a range of issues. Lastly, unmanaged providers may not support you or whatever you put on your server after you move in, but they do stand by the hardware and software they sell you. If a hard drive crashes they are going to replace it for you (although you had better be doing your backups) and if your system crashes most will fix it for you.