What's The Similarities Between A Fully Managed And Unmanaged Dedicated Servers?

What’s The Similarities Between A Fully Managed And Unmanaged Dedicated Servers?

• 23 August 2010
• by: Sumit Pradhan
• in: web hosting
• Tags: dedicated server, dedicated servers, Linux Dedicated Server, server hosting, windows dedicated server
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You have two different “flavours” of dedicated server depending on how much responsibility you wish to bear on running it.

Unmanaged servers you get full root or remote desktop access to but with a managed server you would only get partial control over.  

Fully managed servers are aimed at those who maybe inexperienced, or do not want the hassle of having to completely run all the parts of the server.   In order to control your server, you will normally get some form of control panel to allow for monitoring.  

So what will the server provider do for you? 

So what can imagine from a company that supplies you dedicated server hosting? Well pretty much everything within reason, they will of course install and setup the server for you and install the software you need to get yourself going. Monitor it for hardware issues and perform preventative maintenance as necessary. You should find that you will not be limited to the amount of support time you have, but if you are using an unfair amount you may be charged or limited.

Unmanaged servers, you have to know how to maintain and run your server,  when I say maintain I mean keeping software up to date, keep the server secure and the risk of being compromised as small as possible.Plus all the other daily or weekly tasks you need to perform.  Access would be via root or remote desktop, which would all you complete and unrestricted access to your server to do anything you need to do.  

What will the server company do?  

 The server host would still be responsible for the hardware of your server, but they might not have any monitoring software installed, so any issues you notice you would need to report to avoid an problems. They will of course install the operating system but this is where there responsibility then stops.You can ask them to help you as you will be given a certain amount of support time per month but this is normally not much. Should you really kill your server, it might prove costly to sort the mess out and so may be better getting a format and reinstall done instead.  A provider of a dedicated server web like Melbourne should be able to offer you the right solutions.

Where a managed server might not be applicable you have other options.  You might also find a third option with is a part or semi managed server, you would get more access but not unrestricted, but also can have more support when you need it with not unlimited amounts but not none at all. Making this option a great bridging service between being fully managed and completely unmanaged.