Archive for October, 2008

Oct 31 2008

Load balancing Dedicated server requirements

When a website has a good amount of traffic and the HTTP requests which are made are more than the requests which can be handled by a dedicated server then we have to increase the configuration of the dedicated server to a Load balancing dedicated server. The reason for this is, once the website which is hosted on a dedicated server has more traffic which can be handled then the visitors of the website have to wait until the request is completed as the capacity of the server is less as compared to the traffic which is received by the website. Load balancing dedicated servers is the best option to reduce the traffic of the website.

To maintain 100% uptime for the server, the load has to be distributed among various servers so that the performance of the server is good and you have the uptime which is needed for your website. This is for database as well as application server. IP spraying which is also called as load/network dispatcher is the feature which is the feature which is used by the HTTP requests is considered in this case. It is the feature which checks all the HTTP requests and redirects the request to one single server or a cluster of servers. It is also used for fail-over dedicated server hosting specifications.

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Oct 31 2008

Windows Dedicated servers : Server Side Includes

We have to maintain the pages of our website when with the new updates when the pages of our website increases. These are widely used to handle the situations with the same content which appears on different pages.

Dedicated server hosting should have SSI enabled on them. This is the reason that most of the Dedicated server hosting providers provide SSI as it is one of the requirements. Operating System and SSI file name extensions are related along with the dedicated web server that is used by web hosting service. .htm or .asp is used for Windows ISS in case of Windows Dedicated servers and .shtml for is used for Linux Dedicated Servers.shtml are for SSI files. SSI executes before server side scripts such as :

file.ext is in the same directory as the page.

For headers and navigational panels of a website SSI is used. It allows the website to centralize navigational links in one file which has all the pages of a website. Effect is seen on the pages which are included after the webmaster makes some changes. This is normally seen with the navigations on the website. It is suggested that the websites which are hosted on a dedicated server should have Server Side Includes.

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