Server rent and hosting price disparity How to weigh the pros and cons?

Server hosting is where the customer owns a server and places it in the computer room of the Internet data center, maintained by the customer himself, or remotely maintained by other contractors.

The biggest obstacle to server leasing: service

The advantage of directly renting an IDC room server is convenience and low price. We know that most servers are installed with systems and software, and debugging is passed. After that, I still have to put it in the IDC room. Then, the server that rents the IDC room directly is more convenient. I think, if the computer room is not far from the user's location, it is easy to do it. It is good to drive or take the bus. However, if the IDC engine room is very far from the user's location, it will be troublesome to transport it. Especially in the southwestern and northwestern regions, there are very few computer room resources, and users in those areas do not have to use their own servers to host them.

However, there are certain problems in renting IDC server rooms.

In most cases, users don't see the server they rent. It's a pretty good way. Some of the more savvy operators will tell customers exactly what brand and model they are renting. However, there are very few IDCs that use self-assembled servers as a leased service to reduce costs. Therefore, it is the simple configuration information of the server that can provide users. As for what brand of motherboard or even motherboard chip is used, these are remote users. You can view it when you manage the server.

The biggest obstacle to server hosting: price

Now with the reduction in server costs, most professional and large customers have switched to self-purchasing equipment and then hosting it. Because the advantages of self-purchasing are more obvious.

It’s not too expensive to assemble a server in your own way, or even half of the new parts and half of the used parts. If you want high performance, you have to come up with Sufficient funds to buy. In addition, some users may use a special operating system and software, or need to put a large amount of data on the server hard disk in advance, these operations remote control of the server room is not very convenient, generally debug or copy beforehand Go to the computer room for hosting. Of course, the main problem with hosting servers is that the price is too expensive, and it is more suitable for webmasters or enterprises with strong capital and high requirements on the server.