Friends who have built a website all know that choosing a good and suitable server is an important prerequisite for building a good website. When choosing a server, IDC operators generally make two suggestions: buy a server and host it in an IDC computer room, or rent a server directly from the IDC operator.
Since it’s an either/or choice, let’s compare these two methods to see what the advantages are. In fact, the comparison is not to choose which one is best! Which method is better? I don’t think so. The correct answer can only be said which method is more suitable for you!
Let’s first look at the advantages of renting a server:
The advantage of renting a server is convenience and low price. We know that after most servers are purchased, the system and software are installed, and after debugging, they will eventually be placed in the IDC computer room. Therefore, it is relatively more expensive to rent a server directly from the IDC computer room. It saves trouble! Because after all, the transportation link is omitted. If the computer room is not far from the user's location, it is very easy to handle. It is OK to drive or take a bus there. However, if the IDC computer room is very far from the user's location, transporting it there is usually very troublesome. At this time, renting is indeed a good way. Even if it is not a good way, it is a last resort. Especially in the southwest and northwest regions, there are very few computer room resources. It is really better for users in those areas to use their own servers to host them than to rent them directly. .
However, renting a server in a computer room also has its shortcomings:
In most cases, users cannot see what the server they rent looks like. Some more kind operators will truthfully tell customers the brand and model of the server they rent. However, there will be a very small number of IDCs that use self-assembled servers for rental services in order to reduce costs, so what they can provide users is simple configuration information of the server. As for what brand of motherboard is used or even what the motherboard chip is, these are all remote for the user. You can only view it when managing the server.
The biggest obstacle to buying a server and hosting it in a computer room is the price. But now with the reduction of server costs, most professional customers and large customers have switched to purchasing equipment by themselves and then hosting it, because the advantages of self-purchasing are obvious:
The price of assembling a server in your own way, even with half new and half second-hand parts, is actually not too high; users who want high performance can spend enough money to buy a 4-way or even 8-way server. Products, some users who pay attention to brand and stability can also directly purchase products from first-tier manufacturers such as IBM and HP. In addition, some users may need to use special operating systems and software, or they may need to COPY a large amount of data to the server hard drive in advance. These operations are not very convenient for remote control of the server in the computer room. Generally, they need to be debugged or copied before taking it. Go to the computer room for hosting.
By comparing the above two methods, it can be concluded that for places far away from the computer room, you can choose to rent a server, saving you the trouble of traveling and traveling. If it is not far from the computer room, it is best to purchase the server yourself and then host it in the computer room, even if the price will be more expensive than renting.
In fact, it is not completely impossible to take into account price and stability at the same time. Many operators and providers have launched VPS hosting. VPS hosting is a product between hosting and virtual hosting. It is a far more advanced space rental than virtual hosting.
VPS hosting allows users to have full control over an independent operating system. Users can install programs by themselves, customize application scopes, etc. In this way, users don't have to worry about whether certain components are supported, whether there are restrictions on the number of simultaneous visitors, etc. when using a virtual host.
VPS host - Functionally speaking, each virtual host is almost the same as a real host, but the price is much cheaper than host rental. Each virtual host has an independent public IP and can install its own database and applications. At the same time, customers can freely choose which operating system to use. They can have super administrator rights such as Administrator or Root, and can directly manage the rented host remotely.
It should be said that the VPS hosting business is a popular IDC service nowadays, and it is also a virtual machine-like rental business with great potential for development in the future. Compared with purchasing a server by yourself, the VPS hosting business is both cheaper and has the advantages of server rental. Compared with traditional server rental and virtual host, VPS host generally has a relatively high configuration. It is too expensive to rent a server with this configuration alone, but it is more cost-effective to rent a VPS host.
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