High Performance Dedicated Servers

Dedicated Servers are physical computers that are setup and maintained by INSIGHT Technology in one of our Data-Centers. You have your own physical computer, dedicated to your business - your own private hard drive, CPU, memory, and direct bandwidth connection to the Internet via the next-generation fiber-optic network. You have complete root access to install and configure the server to your needs, and unlimited potential to add more domain names, web sites or other features.

Dedicated servers include a built in Firewall Security system with the Firewall Monitor software. All dedicated servers include custom intrusion detection software, 24x7 system and performance monitoring, secure remote backups, advanced web statistic reports, detailed system reports and the easy to use Server Control panel. Dedicated servers come with large volumes of monthly bandwidth, over 1,000 GigaByte of monthly usage on some billing plans!

No, there are no hidden costs or setup fees associated with any virtual server hosting or dedicated server hosting account with our services.

If your server comes with a control panel such as cPanel, Plesk or ServerCP you will most often be able to login via the control panel as 'root' and click on the 'view status' buttons there. However in cases where the server is sluggish, or the control panel not responding (or you do not have a control panel on your dedicated server) you can use the command line access method via SSH (login as root using SSH).

Once you login via the SSH access (as 'root') you can type the following commands to get a better idea of what your server is doing:

> free

The 'free' command will show the current memory usage in your dedicated server, the output looks something like this:

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 4143940 3988792 155148 0 89740 3000964

-/+ buffers/cache: 898088 3245852

Swap: 8385920 14896 8371024

The above output means you have 4 GB of ram, 8 GB of 'swap sapce' (simulated ram that can be used in the event your main memory is all consumed). The above output shows that you have 4 gb of ram, aand about 3.2 GB of it is 'free' (in the buffers/cache line) and you are not utilizing 'swap space'. The time to be concerned about memory would be if you had a lot of swap space being 'used', that would mean your server is going to run very slow as it tries to use disk 'swap space' ram instead of real ram, leading to performance hits about 100x slower than usual.

> ps axuww

the "ps auxww" command shows all the running processes in the server

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

root 1 0.0 0.0 2064 624 ? Ss Jul18 0:00 init [3]

root 2814 0.0 0.1 25432 11660 ? Ss Jul18 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

nobody 2828 0.0 0.0 5852 1084 ? Ss Jul18 0:00 proftpd:

root 2846 0.0 0.0 5284 1116 ? Ss Jul18 0:00 crond

nobody 2875 0.0 0.1 25696 9984 ? S Jul18 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

The output above is a partial output of a linux dedicated server, showing the processes (proftpd being the ftp daemon, httpd is the apache web daemon, etc). If you seea process 'stuck' you can terminate it with the 'kill' command such as "kill -9 2875" would kill process ID number 2875.

If your server is overloaded, or having trouble (perhaps a bad piece of web code you deployed is looping) you can restart the software like this:

service httpd restart

or

service mysqld restart

The first restarts the web daemon, the 2nd will restart the database (mysql) daemon. This is the SAFEST way to restart software, and should be tried first before you consider doing a full server reboot via the Control Panel.