Hosting Dedicated Server Hosting 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the defining characteristic of dedicated server hosting?
- You share the server with hundreds of other users
- You rent an entire physical server exclusively for your own use (Correct answer)
- You only get a virtual partition of a server
- Resources are dynamically allocated from a pool
Correct answer: You rent an entire physical server exclusively for your own use
In dedicated server hosting, the client rents an entire physical server that is not shared with any other customers, providing maximum performance and control.
Question 2: Which type of hosting is most appropriate for a high-traffic e-commerce site processing thousands of transactions per minute?
- Shared hosting
- Free hosting
- Dedicated server hosting (Correct answer)
- Subdomain hosting
Correct answer: Dedicated server hosting
Dedicated server hosting provides the highest performance and security, making it ideal for high-traffic e-commerce sites that require consistent resources and PCI compliance.
Question 3: What does 'IPMI' allow a dedicated server administrator to do?
- Monitor website uptime from a browser
- Remotely manage the server hardware including rebooting and reinstalling OS even if the server is offline (Correct answer)
- Increase RAM automatically
- Configure firewall rules via GUI
Correct answer: Remotely manage the server hardware including rebooting and reinstalling OS even if the server is offline
IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) provides out-of-band remote management of server hardware, allowing administrators to reboot and reinstall the OS even when it is completely offline.
Question 4: What is a 'colocation' (colo) hosting arrangement?
- Hosting multiple websites on one server
- Renting space in a data center to house your own physical server hardware (Correct answer)
- A type of shared hosting with better resources
- Hosting servers in multiple countries simultaneously
Correct answer: Renting space in a data center to house your own physical server hardware
Colocation means you own the physical server hardware and pay a data center to house it, providing its power, cooling, bandwidth, and physical security.
Question 5: What is the typical billing model for dedicated server bandwidth in the US market?
- Pay-per-request
- Monthly flat fee for a set amount with overage charges or 95th percentile billing (Correct answer)
- Free unlimited bandwidth always
- Per-user billing
Correct answer: Monthly flat fee for a set amount with overage charges or 95th percentile billing
Dedicated servers are typically billed with a monthly flat fee that includes a set bandwidth allocation, with overage charges or 95th percentile billing for excess usage.
Question 6: Which RAID level provides both striping and mirroring for a balance of performance and redundancy on a dedicated server?
- RAID 0
- RAID 1
- RAID 5
- RAID 10 (Correct answer)
Correct answer: RAID 10
RAID 10 combines striping (RAID 0) and mirroring (RAID 1), offering both improved read/write performance and full redundancy by mirroring striped pairs.
Hosting Dedicated Server Hosting 1
What is the defining characteristic of dedicated server hosting?