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Important Points to Consider After Purchasing a VPS or Dedicated Server?

After you have bought a dedicated or VPS server, there are certain things that you should bear in mind to make sure that you can get the best performances out of these servers, enjoy a high network uptime and can steer clear of security hacks or service interruptions. When you are given root access to the VPS or dedicated server, you must decide which level of access or security restrictions are needed. You will only be allotted some basic tools that may not be enough to protect the data against advanced threats. So, you may need to implement tighter security measures and redefine your security policies. Since the memory and CPU resources will decide the overall performance, you need to know how to configure these to get the desired loading speed for the web pages. You may have to adjust the LAMP settings depending on your requirements. When you have to customize open source CMS from developers you can ask them to work with support teams to make sure that the environment is suitable.

If the hosting options include paid or free backup storage services, you must ensure that these are configured according to your needs. You need to plan and ask your support staff to configure the backup services measures at regular intervals; it is best to have daily, weekly or monthly replications. You must also give required information to the support team to get email hosting settings configured according to the sender’s best practices. These have to be followed up for dealing with IP address reputation problems. You must enable the automatic upgrades and updates and request support staff to carry out manual upgrades wherever necessary to ensure better site performance.