What Kind of Server Should You Pick?

When considering what to do with your businesses IT, it is important to consider your hosting and whether or not your hosting will be outsourced or done internally. Should you decide on the latter, doing your own hosting, it's hugely important to consider what kind of servers you are going to be using. The wrong type of server can hinder growth and affect your bottom line adversely and as a result it's best to do your homework. It's generally accepted that there are three types of servers:

Rack servers
These are built for space saving and are generally racked in a vertical fashion in a shelf or server cabinet. This method saves space and allows you to organize your wiring far more efficiently.

Tower Servers
These are enormous, upright servers and contain everything you could need. They are generally self cooled and contain motherboards, hard disks and CPU's. They take up a massive amount of space and are generally not worth considering unless you have a very large enterprise.

Bladed Servers
These are the smallest servers of the lot and are generally cooled by external coolers. A large amount of the necessary components have been removed from these servers and it is best to have a sysadmin who knows what he is doing before considering this as an option.

On the whole, rack servers offer the most value and economy of space, it must be noted however that this is entirely dependent on the size of your business and its processing requirements. Good luck!

Travis also works for Toughrack, a company specialising in the production and retail of Server racks

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