Unmanaged Servers

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Hi,

I've found that "unmanaged" server plans are much cheaper than their managed counterparts. Can someone explain to me, is it a lot of work to manage a server? What exactly do you have to do? Anyone got any links?

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Joined: Jan 2009

Unmanaged servers can be hard. It means that the hosting company will give you access to a box with a standard configuration. That's it. You're on your own from then.

We deal with *nix boxes and I'm fortunate enough to have the help of a professional administrator. You can cope on your own if you know sys admin. but the hosting company will not help you if you screw up your box. All they'll probably offer to do is re-image the disk and you're back to square one. Hence cheaper.

We run MySQL database, James email and Tomcat web servers, with iptables port forwarding. You have to decide for yourself if this sounds difficult.

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tummy wrote:
Hi,

I've found that "unmanaged" server plans are much cheaper than their managed counterparts. Can someone explain to me, is it a lot of work to manage a server? What exactly do you have to do? Anyone got any links?


I work with unmamaged server.. need to know some knowledge on server management like DNS creating and configuration, web hosting , email hosting etc.. Also regarding security should be carefull...

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Joined: Dec 2006

If a server is properly configured and you have manuals on server management you should't have lots of trouble managing your server. If you aren't sure of your abilities you can get server administration on an hourly basis. HQHost.net offers this, I'm sure a lot of other companies, too.

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