Tips for Improving Performance of Your Windows Server 2008 Dedicated Machine



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It’s common in the web hosting world to compare the relative benefits of operating systems.  This masks an important fact, though: in all cases, they are what you make of them.  While there are naturally limits to this (no one is running Commodore 64 web hosting), the little improvements you can make to a machine can add up quickly.

This means that whatever drawbacks there are to hosting a dedicated Windows machine (and some say there aren’t as many these days), they can easily be negated with the right adjustments.  Here are some of the most common suggestions for improving performance of Windows Server 2008 on your dedicated server. Continue Reading »

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