{"id":2439,"date":"2011-09-22T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:48:17","slug":"dedicated-server-hosting-how-to-tell-if-your-getting-what-you-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/dedicated-server-hosting-how-to-tell-if-your-getting-what-you-paid-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated Server Hosting: How to Tell if Your Getting What You Paid For"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve shelled out the expenses for a reliable dedicated server<\/a> for your business. It\u2019s all said and done, and the funds are out of your account. Not only that, but now you\u2019ve got access to the hardware, and have starting uploading your site files. However, how do you really know for sure if you got what you paid for? I mean, you can\u2019t see the hardware yourself, so how do you know your web hosting provider<\/a> isn\u2019t giving you the finger by cutting corners in the dark?<\/p>\n

Thanks to the beauty of Linux<\/a>, and it\u2019s various diagnostic tools, you can figure out pretty quick, actually. Use this guide and the commands held within to run a quick system analysis, a simple way to check if you\u2019re actually sporting the hardware you aught to be.<\/p>\n

Start With the Proc, Doc:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seriously, the \/proc file of your Linux<\/a> directory is dedicated to nothing but logs, hardware information, and systems analyses. With that in mind, this is your first and best stop to figure out exactly what kind of equipment you\u2019ve been saddled with. To check, simply access the directory with:<\/p>\n

cat \/proc\/cpuinfo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Your printout should be something like this:<\/p>\n

processor : 3<\/p>\n

vendor_id : GenuineIntel<\/p>\n

cpu family : 6<\/p>\n

model : 15<\/p>\n

model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5150 @ 2.66GHz<\/p>\n

stepping : 6<\/p>\n

cpu MHz : 2660.033<\/p>\n

cache size : 4096 KB<\/p>\n

Obviously this is what\u2019s important. Be sure to check that everything looks kosher, especially the model name of your CPU. If you paid for a Celeron, and have a Xeon, we\u2019d suggest you give someone a call.<\/p>\n

The Big One<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a couple of other directories we could have you check, but if you really need to know more about your web server, there\u2019s only one command left to run: the lshw command. This one tells you more than you ever wanted to know about your hardware, and with that in mind, you\u2019ll want to save its massive output to a text file for easy perusal. To do so, simply run:<\/p>\n

lshw > hardware-info<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This will dump the command\u2019s entire output to a simple text file named \u201chardware-info.\u201d From there, you can open the file however you like, and scan its (truly extensive) hardware report. It will be rather complex, so be sure to pay extra attention. That being said, no matter what you\u2019re looking for, it\u2019s in there somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve shelled out the expenses for a reliable dedicated server for your business. It\u2019s all said and done, and the funds are out of your account. Not only that, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,1808,61],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff","tag-dedicated-server","tag-hardware","tag-linux"],"views":118,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}