In comparison with all the web hosting forms, dedicated servers is the only one which is reliable, secured, stable and provides optimum performance. Most of the growing companies don’t know the benefits of the dedicated server hosting. Before choosing a dedicated server one must be aware of the thing they are getting into. Lets see how a dedicated servers is beneficial for your business.

When a dedicated server becomes necessary to consider for your company?

Choosing a dedicated server becomes mandatory when you come across the following points:

• When your company is large in size and has enough money to invest
• When you are aware of the immense web presence of your company
• When you company’s business website is really vast
• When you receives a huge amount of traffic to your website
• When a company integrates with an e-commerce website

Core Benefits of Dedicated Servers:

Dedicated Servers can benefit you in the following ways…

• A Dedicated server is highly reliable, offers outstanding performance with enhanced security and a high network connectivity of 10Mbit – 100Mbits.
• All the websites hosted on dedicated server performs excellent without any issues, as the web server is dedicated completely to the client. A client doesn’t need to share the server resources and able to utilize it for better performance.
• A dedicated server is very useful in saving money of the clients as it doesn’t require to maintain the equipments or server by itself. Web hosting provider will be responsible to manage and maintain your dedicated server for you.
• The client doesn’t have to hire any professional technical staff to find out and solve the technical queries regarding the server. The web host will will take care of all the technical related problems for you.
• In case of failure of any part of the server, the web hosting provider assures you to replace the part in less time to minimize the downtime.

Here is how to keep log of daily network traffic on Dedicated Servers :

* It is a console-base network traffic monitor for Linux (perfect tool for remote Linux box hosted at ISP)
* It keeps a log of daily and monthly network traffic for the selected network interface(s).
* It collects all data from /proc file system it means normal user can monitor traffic (no need to run vnstat as a root user)
* Easy to setup & configure
* Ease of use

Step # 1: Install vnstat
Debian user can install vnstat using apt-get command

# apt-get install vnstat

Step # 2: Enable vnstat
Once installed you need to create a database with following command:

# vnstat -u -i eth0

Where,
u :forces a database update for interface or creates the database if it doesn’t exist
i eth0 : use to specify interface

Please note that it will start to collect data via cronjob

0-55/5 * * * *   root    /usr/bin/vnstat -u

You do not have to install cronjob yourself; it should be automatically configure by apt-get.

Step # 3 View statistics
Display default traffic statistics

$ vnstat

Display daily traffic statistics

$ vnstat -d

Display monthly traffic statistics:

$ vnstat -m

Display all time top10 traffic days:

$ vnstat -t

Try help option to get all query options:

$ vnstat –help