Server Network Hardware
What exactly networking hardware devices does a dedicated server come provided with? How do they affect the actual functioning of your web sites?
In the event that you host your internet sites on a dedicated server, you would expect that they shall perform ultra fast and that the access speed to them shall depend only on the Internet connection of the website visitors. Nevertheless, this won't be the case in case the hosting machine has poor network connectivity or employs a network card, which just can't deal with high volume of website traffic. If this is the situation, it shall take a very long time for your websites to load if lots of people open them concurrently or visitors could see error messages. Because of this you could lose customers as in all probability many people will not revisit your internet site in case they have experienced issues or slow loading speeds. This is the reason why you ought to pay attention to the network components of any new hosting machine you acquire and not only to the main hardware such as CPU, RAM or hard disk.
Server Network Hardware in Dedicated Servers
The dedicated web hosting plans which we provide include gigabit network cards that are tested together with all the other hardware components before and after any new machine is assembled so as to make sure that we will not employ a faulty part which can cause a problem at some point. We also take advantage of the most up-to-date hardware for our internal network in the Chicago data center where we offer the dedicated plans. That includes routers, switches and hardware firewalls which can certainly deal with substantial inbound and outgoing traffic to any hosting server, while any traffic that isn't legitimate shall be filtered and shall not consume your system resources. The continuous access to the center is ensured by using redundant backbone Internet providers. In this way we ensure the fast and reliable connection to all of our servers, which means your sites and applications shall be working at top speed all of the time.