What are the key points to pay attention to when choosing server hosting?

The hosting server can be as small as possible

Everyone knows that renting a space in a computer room is not cheap. For small companies, although they want to save some money in the initial investment, they must learn how to save and not save on things that should not be saved. The hosting host recommends hosting a 1U rack-mounted server. Although the initial hardware cost is a bit higher, it is more cost-effective in the long run because the hosting fees of the telecommunications computer room are calculated based on the annual price of 1U. If your server is too tall, you will undoubtedly have to pay more hosting fees. For example, in a computer room in Hong Kong, the hosting fee for a 1U server is 7,000 yuan/year, and the hosting fee for a 2U server is 9,000 yuan/year. This shows that the application of 1U servers in the field of host hosting is very practical. Compared with hosting other types of servers (such as 2U servers, tower servers, etc.), the hosting fee for hosting 1U servers is definitely the cheapest. Therefore, if you want to go for hosting, please take out the accessories in your tower server and install them into a 1U server case. This can save you a lot of money. Think about it, the server will be hosted for many years, so how much money can be saved.
Risks of Server Hosting

1. Low-cost service providers have a lot of variables. In the current market, the prices of hosting vary greatly. For the same 1U hosting, the expensive one is priced at 8,000 yuan/year, while the cheap one is only 3,000 yuan/year. There are many factors that cause this. Although you cannot say that expensive ones are necessarily good, you should never think that the cheaper the better. So what's the difference between low-cost service providers? In fact, a very important factor is the scale of the service provider and whether it can operate consistently. Because the threshold for hosting services is relatively low now, and the management is not very strict, two college students can rent a cabinet in the computer room. However, for small companies and personal services, there are too many unstable factors. In my experience, basically 80% of the services will change in the first half of the year. Once there is an economic fluctuation or the profit is too little after the computer room rent is increased, and they give up, or change locations or IP addresses randomly, it will be miserable. Don't think this is rare. In fact, this situation is the majority now.
2. Frequent running away incidents

The technical strength of many small companies is too weak. This is not obvious when they are maintaining a dozen servers. However, once more customers are attracted by low prices, the disadvantages will be revealed. For example, when there are dozens of servers, it will be difficult for one or two technicians to maintain them. With more customers, there are naturally more problems, such as freezes, restarts, slow speeds, going to the computer room to repair lines, taking customers to the computer room, antivirus, problems in the computer room, etc. No matter what the problem is, customers think it is a hosting problem. It is common for customers to call the phone in the middle of the night to yell. The money collected is low to begin with, and once the subsequent hosting is reduced, the capital turnover is only outflowing and not inflowing, and these servers have to be maintained until the end of the year. Do you think it would not be annoying? It's so annoying that I turn off the phone and let them do whatever they want.
Of course, I don't mean to belittle small companies here. I just think that as long as small companies work seriously, are responsible and have patience, they are totally a good choice. However, some things are really beyond human control. I have seen many small companies that start out with great ambitions, but run into big problems in less than half a year, and most of the time less than three months. Because during this period there are neither too many nor too few customers, and there are many troubles, many companies cannot survive and go bankrupt. Sometimes it was really hard to make it through. Just imagine that there were only two of us, and we received a call in the middle of the night saying that there was a problem with the server, so we had to go to the computer room. The customers kept calling us and were very angry, while the computer room was dragging its feet and not solving the problem. Do you think we could avoid bankruptcy?
Once again, I would like to advise those friends who are planning to host a server that if you are going to place website information of hundreds of companies on the server in the future, you must be careful. Once a problem occurs, as long as one or two companies sue the Industry and Commerce Bureau because of the server outage, you will be in trouble. At the very least, you will have to pay compensation, and at worst, you will have to close down. Therefore, try to choose a large, well-established company, so that at least it will not stop answering the phone and disappear.