A dedicated server is a physical server that is formed of physical components that can be adjusted to provide servers of differing specifications, with low-specification dedicated servers being the least powerful and the most powerful dedicated servers being available in the form of high-specification hosting plans. Whereas virtual server hosting services such as VPS servers and cloud hosting VMs are aimed at businesses with restricted budgets, dedicated servers are designed for businesses with larger budgets as is evident with the price of most dedicated servers. Even though ESDS aims to offer affordable dedicated servers, this is within the context of larger businesses that are able to justify the cost and maximize the usage of the resources available.

The purpose of dedicated hosting is offer larger businesses an isolated environment in which applications requiring high levels of security and uptime can be hosted. ESDS believes in ensure that our dedicated hosting customers can secure their dedicated servers to a level that matches their customer expectations and industry standards; ways in which this can be achieved include:

• A hardware firewall can be used with a dedicated server to provide an additional layer of security outside of the software that you have in use on your server to offer security
• Providing a professional server management service that includes carrying out a number of security checks and application installations to ensure that your server is available to protect itself using all available defenses
• As you won’t be sharing your dedicated server with any other users, you can be guaranteed that you have full control of the security of your hosting environment.

ESDS provides a range of dedicated servers that can be adjusted to meet your requirements as you wish. As well as offering a choice of hardware options, you can opt for Windows or Linux as you wish so that you can make the most of the technologies that you are familiar with.

Dedicated Hosting Custom

ESDS believes in offering all of our customers value for money and this includes providing them with an opportunity to select additional features for their dedicated servers that they feel can be used to enhance their web hosting experience and the overall usefulness of a dedicated server for their day-to-day business activities. As dedicated servers are physical servers, it is fairly easy to change the hardware configuration at the time of ordering the server – it is simply a case of opening the server case and modifying the hardware arrangement; however, once your server has been bought online, the hardware can’t be modified without causing downtime because your server will need to be taken offline in order for the changes to take place.

The isolated nature of dedicated hosting puts you in a position that isn’t obtainable with other forms of web hosting; you won’t have to share a single aspect of your dedicated server with anyone else, therefore giving you full access to the hardware of your server to use as you wish. Creating a custom hosting environment is one of the best benefits of dedicated hosting and can be done in the following ways:

• As you have full root/administrator access, installing applications and services of your choice will allow you to add functionality to your web applications that may not be possible due to restrictions in place on shared hosting environments
• During the order process ESDS will allow you to specify the hardware that forms your server so that you have room to create extra capacity by purchasing additional resources such as a more powerful CPU or more RAM for your server
• ESDS’ professional support team can also implement advanced server configurations for you that make use of several dedicated servers; server mirroring can be used to enhance the redundancy of your hosting platform by utilizing a secondary dedicated server as backup in the event that the primary server fails, whilst load balancing can be introduced to delegate the load of your website across several servers to improve system stability.

As all dedicated servers from ESDS are fully managed, if there is something that you are looking to achieve with your dedicated server but feel that you lack server management skills then you should contact our support team who can then assist you as necessary.

As one of India’s largest web hosting companies, ESDS believes in offering high quality service that can be used to develop a custom solution for each of our dedicated hosting customers.

Before driving a series dedicated to the choice of hosting service. In this first guide we talk about the analysis of the basic requirements for the selection of a service, or how to understand what we need and at what level.

Choosing a Hosting service – Guide dedicated to the basic steps to choose which service is best for us.

First part of an article that seeks to clarify which aspects are essential to arrive at a choice of web hosting service. I think, this has been asked several times actually, this article will be a sum of what has been said and repeated. There would be no sense to write an article like this first even for our staff, for me personally, ESDS inevitably has enriched the knowledge of our users, and as well as our own.

An article that speaks only about the factors in choosing a web hosting service, so we will treat explicitly only the appearance of web pages related to hosting services and dedicated to the web.

Choosing the dedicated hosting service – Requirements Analysis

Before you think about what will be our hosting service, it is important to understand what are the reasons why (that) we are choosing a web hosting service, or understand what we’re going to put on our space, and what features it should have. It is not a trivial step in our path, we could even say that it is one of the most important, given that, once defined what we call in the jargon specific to our project, we will have more clear idea for our real needs.

There are hosting services for virtually any type of website or application, more standard, ranging from the more personalized, cost and of course different methods of management. Therefore ask what kind of website we are going to need, trying to figure out first whether it is a static site (static web pages and images) or dynamic (formed by pages so that it exchanges data with a database or using a language server-side programming, such as php and mysql). It is important to understand this because a static site gets thousands of hits, hardly require (requires) resources equivalent to those of the same site that uses a database and is built with a scripting language.

In the first case of a static site, there will be a few other variables in play, but even here among these we find the web space and traffic needed again, you must figure out how many megabytes of  space the site will be occupying, and how many megabytes or gigabytes of traffic is produced on your website every month.

In the second case, if it is a dynamic site, we just do not know how much web space and bandwidth will be consumed, it is also essential to know how many users visit our site daily, and even more important, how about those who come at once. A community, for example, must focus on these data in order to understand what resources will it really need. If our site is a blog, unlike a community, despite being constructed on a dynamic platform, requires less resources, but also in this case a proper analysis of the statistics of visits and the online presence of users is important.

As a “dimension” in project numbers, first of all, if we have our website hosted on a hosting service, we favor the statistics and those relating to the daily visits and traffic (measured in gigabytes or megabytes) consumed each month. Have some initial statistics from which the case is always more lucky, but if it is our first experience and it is a new project, better to refer to parameters such as advertising, consider that if it is advertised on the network, and try to estimate the public based on sites or projects similar to ours.

Finally, we also consider two other aspects that will affect a lot on our final choice: will our website produce a gain for us or is it just for the hobby? Does it provide an important service and is intended for a customer? Two questions that are often underestimated, if our site / project is just a hobby we can afford to “prove” any service, knowing that we will still be a secondary thing, but if our site is an asset for us, and therefore brings earnings, carefully consider the hosting that we are going to choose. This happens for example in the case of an e-commerce portal, where the reliability of our website, minimized downtime, and service provider are essential, because we have Revenue from that activity.

Very often you see sites in the network which are also of some importance who entrust their data to entry-level solutions or amateur providers, with obvious risks if something serious happens.

As far as we are handling Apache, MySQL, and PHP, they fall into the category of “Application of repute” to support and upgrade security at their latest stable versions, but all of them and at some point in time their respective projects, may have experienced more vulnerable periods from high or low.

If you are using versions of some of these applications, which undoubtedly will comply from a particular version number, with the minimum requirements to run Joomla, But with known vulnerabilities, not correct and / or without official support , we are looking at some acceptable level of safety. Therefore, it is also recommended to move within an acceptable level of security, using or being updated to latest stable versions.

What security measures are currently implemented?

Do you use strong passwords?

• strong password means that more than eight digits, consisting of letters, numbers and signs allowed, without any sense.
• Change passwords periodically and do not use the same passwords for levels which are having different access, is highly recommended as well.

Do you have a complete backup of your site?

• Having a data backup of your database and files and folders on your dedicated hosting at least once in a week will help in case of intrusion at least not to lose all your work and others have contributed to your site.
• If you use hard drives replica, or work with replicas of the DB, you can minimize the loss of sensitive information.
• Provide support for traditional backup and replication support for help to overcome most problems, and the absence of any of them can lead to irreversible situations in regard to information retrieval.

Extra Protection From?

• On the extra protection, only commenting that deals with limiting the damage, but not acting directly on the root of the problem .. that in most cases, the root of the problem, software will be vulnerable or improper seating.
• Examples of extra protection, the rules are anti-or anti-exploit SQL injections, which, when detecting any “malicious pattern” within a URL access, block it.
• And so, normally, most of applications such as Apache can be good, have some type of utility, type mod_security, mod_rewrite which, if configured properly, frustrate many of the unwanted intrusion attempts with little yield false positive.
• Then, against security holes in code, the extra protection, which is more breading solution, you can save on many occasions.
• The availability of this type of protection for what are the applications that make up our environment, and it never hurts to review all the access log or error within our reach.

For several days I was thinking to write a post about the differences between ASP and Saas and yesterday I decided to do because of an email I received from one of the readers of this humble blog. In the mail, there was a series of questions using the acronym asp and other using the acronym SaaS, and I was unable to identify whether it was a matter of right or use of the acronym that were really confusing.

If you seek information from the term ASP and Saas and even if “differences between ASP and Saas” many entries appear that attempt to explain the terms but most of the comparisons confuse the term ASP hosting and from there the comparison does not fit with Saas. I would like to clarify first “what is ASP and What is Hosting?” based on these definitions:

ASP is a paid platform. Within its single fee it include licensing, dedicated hosting, maintenance, etc.

In regime, Hosting pay licenses and / or project and servers can host it on your property or perhaps the provider.

I think it is clear that pay-per-use ASP Hosting and pay licenses to use products and machines can be yours or rented but are in provider’s premises. Clarifying these concepts, I will try to clarify the differences between ASP and SaaS.

ASP stands for Application Service Provider and the Wikipedia explains in its first paragraph that it provides software services.

Among the factors that characterize a PSA highlights the widespread use of Internet , the ability to accelerate the deployment and implementation of applications and portability of services and operations to third parties. The main barrier to a PSA lies in convincing their customers that their information with a third remains secure. On the other hand, own and operate the software and hardware environment and rented to customers to use computer applications.

Let us now turn to the definition that makes SaaS wiki:

“Software as a Service (SaaS) is a distribution model of software where the IT company provides maintenance, daily operations, and support software used by the client. In other words, it is to have the information, processing, inputs and outcomes of the business logic of the software. In simple words: The customer has the system hosted in the IT company. It is software accessed via Internet . It is not necessarily to operate through Web browsers, business logic resides in the central city of provider.

And the truth is written in different words but there are very few differences:

• Accessed via the Internet.
• In a service operation and maintenance.
• You pay per use, not license.
• The data and business logic in provider’s premises.

Applications will not necessarily be delivered through web browsers and therefore at times be necessary to install software on the client and not others.

And then ” What are the differences between ASP and SaaS?”. For a though, it does not seem if there are differences:

ASP is a proprietary software from other ISVs . In the SaaS model there are those ISVs (software developers) that offer hosting and software in one package.

Many of the applications running in the ASP are not prepared to provide access via the Internet. I’ve seen agreements of HP, SAP, etc. with ASP to offer internet through the same applications that were designed to run in-house.

These same applications were not designed to serve multiple clients from different companies, moreover, is running an instance for each client of the ASP. Most applications as a service (SaaS) are designed to deliver the application to multiple clients through a single instance (multitenancy).

Relating to the above, to provide coverage instance to several clients at once it is necessary that the application has a high level customization for each client.

Although we have seen that not necessarily the applications offered as a service (SaaS) are consumed through a browser and therefore do not require installation on the client, in fact most of them are consumed by the browser. In fact I know that Saas is not the case. The applications running on ASP may or may not run through the browser and therefore require additional installation on the client (a Windows emulator or unix, remote desktop, terminal server , citrix).

Related to the above, ASP can offer different applications and different types depending on the agreements reached with the companies that own software. This however is more complicated to get into the SaaS model, normally ISV offers a single software but we also have example like google apps.

Finally, something more than evident is that SaaS can enjoy direct support, more personalized, and without intermediaries who can pass the buck to a software problem.

I hope the post has been cleared to add more questions and that in any case in controversy, sufficient to get us to clarify the terms.

Much of the debate today on the web focuses on the need for infrastructure, dedicated hosting can be quite scalable in terms of web applications that can have a variable number of users.

What does this mean?

Especially in India there is the number of startups growing, and we talk for almost all web applications, social or other things which have their own common denominator and the analysis of data from external sources, third party service API, or the storage of large amounts of information.

PHP is a scripting language that has most enabled the web to grow with the creation of new services and web applications today is no longer the leading choice of web developers. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails has made development faster, but with the demand for different hosting environments.

In this sense web hosting needs are quite different from what we usually read. Many of the people are looking for solutions for the management of a CMS, a community or a portal, more or less growth. Not to mention the requirements that involve an application online that is growing strongly, this is for now only in few cases.

But I am sure that this wave of start-ups and web applications will come. But what are the platforms and languages used? Other than that we find today on many web hosting platforms. PHP is no longer the first scripting language used, the MVC model embodied by Ruby on Rails is one that is popular for the design of web applications with greatly reduced time. Alongside there are other languages like Python , not in first place among the choices, but definitely one of the languages that are considered by several projects.

There are a number of tools that cover the management of services, memcached is a solution commonly used for content caching, while on the front of the DBMS, solutions NoSQL are a must for many startups that want to manage large amounts of data. There are dozens of services worldwide that offer VPS for developers, with preconfigured environment of this type. The implementation of a service that aims to offer these services as a platform, in a perspective of shared hosting service, is completely lacking for now, but the addition of these technologies will go hand in hand with their spread.
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Small business uses mostly cloud storage (67%), and hosting web sites (56%), according to a recent study that was carried out by people who are working in leading IT and dedicated hosting companies. Organized in recent months in two steps, a survey of more than 300 small business managers showed that the above mentioned two areas are most popular among SMBs, and they are followed by business continuity and customer relationship management (39%).

As the results of the study, most small businesses, which created cloud infrastructure, carried out in a cloud of 10-30% of the time (44%). If 11% of respondents said they did not spend time on the clouds, the other 11% claim to dedicate the use of cloud technology more than 50% of the time.

The study also showed the lack of consensus about the benefits of cloud services. Costs have been identified and as a chief virtue, and as the main obstacle to the development of this technology. Surveys conducted earlier this month during an exhibition and as well as through the Internet, demonstrate that the defects promote the benefits of clouds to contain the spread of cloud technology.

Of the more than 300 specialists participated in the survey, 93% believe that they are able to explain the nature of cloud providers. However, almost 43% of respondents said their organizations still do not use the cloud. Those who use the point to cost savings, mobile access and ease of management of infrastructure as a major advantage (42%). At the same time, 54% refer to the related costs as the main obstacle to the development of clouds.

Research shows that there are barriers for organizations to use solutions based on cloud technologies and uncertainty regarding the deployment of clouds and their benefits. It is clear that companies need a more active learning and familiarity with examples of real-world deployment. This is evidenced by most of the answers.

I believe that the industry requires sharing of best practices that companies can evaluate scenarios using real clouds. They have a need to see the benefits that companies derive similar size, belonging to the same industry and with similar infrastructure, with whom they could relate and compare myself.

There are six things that underpin any hosting provider: Server, Control Panel, Domains, Accounts, Support, Legal Organization. Now I will tell you the main options.

Four options:

Reselling - Cheap, no need to deal with configuring the server. But you are dependent on the upstream host more than in other cases. Everywhere, except cPanel cannot create sub-resellers (I do not envy these clients).

VDS or Virtual Dedicated Server - You need to deal with configuring the server, full freedom to choose how and what to do. If something will break, will have to correct ourselves. In addition, there is little dependence on the owner of VDS-node.

Dedicated Server Rental - Same advantages as for the VDS, but if something goes wrong, you cannot reload or quickly rearrange. Sometimes, however, provide a reboot-panel. The cost depends heavily on the country.

Dedicated Server Colocation – Virtually the same as the previous one, but cheaper fee per month, you can quickly pick up and put in another place.

Just need to make a selection panel.

cPanel - The Monster, there are many functions that have cast a lot and sometimes make little sense. Expensive, requires 512 MB of RAM for VDS. If the client finds it a more or less convenient, it requires the administrator and reseller every time to search function. Not bad for working over SSH.

DirectAdmin - Looks good, functions conveniently and logically structured. Do not have all the functions supported by cpanel and slightly fewer billing panel.

The panel is better to take from one who has place a server, because the internal licensed much cheaper.

Domains

Sooner or later the client wants to register you with the hosting domain. There are many registrars who offer reseller program. Now the situation has changed, so I cannot say anything.

Billing

There are several systems, but my favorite is:

WHMCS - Great stuff, but expensive. If you do not think about high price – you can take.

Support

• E-mail – simple, cheap, uncomfortable.
• Ticket – Support that will process incoming messages and convert them into tickets, which may respond to any employee. There are free and paid, as some write a review. Some have built-in billing.
• Live-chat – employee sits in a web application or program for computer. When a customer clicks on the site, he may consult with the employee. On serious issues still usually sent by e-mail.

Form of business

Legal entity with a license – Expensive and painful way. The server should only be Dedicated and only in India. You also need to draw up a communication center. Taken together, takes about six months and 100 thousand in the firm.

Under the contract – may conclude a partnership agreement with larger firm. They have a license, and you sell their hosting. So I was not interested, frankly, so cannot say anything.

Here, it seems, is all.

When searching for web hosting that usually run through a multitude of hosts using a Linux platform, as well as a host using a Windows platform. There are even some hosts that offer both options to their customers easily.

Because many people use Windows as the operating system at home, think this is the best solution. Many users specifically choose a Windows platform on web hosting. However, the truth is that most people will be able to use a Linux platform without any problems. Sometimes the choice of Windows hosting is a personal preference and sometimes a necessity.

Linux vs. Windows Dedicated Hosting: The Great Debate

The fact is, it is often more important to concentrate the efforts in finding a host that is more reliable, and which best suit your needs, regardless of platform. There are, however, several discussion points that are used to compare Windows vs Linux in order to determine which platform is better.

They include:

Price: Historically, Windows servers are more expensive. In most web hosts this is still the case. However, the price is falling due to the competitive nature of the industry and find a bunch of machines that now offer Windows hosting at the same price or price difference is negligible. Price therefore becomes less of a problem than expected with both getting quite comparable systems. If your budget is very tight, however, you can usually find Linux cheaper.

Features: Linux and Windows both have a variety of features available to help you achieve your goals. Both platforms run scripts, create pages, blogs, forums and much more installed with very little difference. If you need a wide range of features, it is likely to get all you need no matter what platform you choose.

Performance: Performance is something that is often debated. Linux consistently performs slightly better than Windows, but there is a problem with that. First, most customers probably do not realize the difference. The reason there is a difference in performance is due to the way each platform is provided. Linux provides a platform that is extensible and Windows is all-in-one. Therefore, with Windows you are getting everything at once can cause some slowdown in performance. Most of this difference is negligible and never be noticed, however, if this is a major concern, you may want to choose Linux.

Safety: Safety is another issue often debated between Windows and Linux. Due to safety concerns about operating systems at home and the popularity of it as an operating system doesn’t mean that Linux is more secure. There are also tips on the Linux system. Both have the potential vulnerabilities. If a web hosting service has qualified IT managers and strict monitoring software, security issues may not be a problem.

Windows Specific Features

In considering the differences between Windows and Linux, there are actually very few differences. Even when differences occur, there is great debate as to which comes in a pro. The main deciding factor, however, whether or not you should use Windows comes down to whether or not to use specific Windows applications. These may include:

ASP: This is a basic web designer, the framework can be used to create pages.

FrontPage: This is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page creator that lets you create pages and forms in place and then easily upload your site.

.NET: This is a software framework that provides a variety of solutions such as security, connectivity, application development and more.

Windows Streaming Media: This is a means to serve audio and video to the public and is often used for sites in band or movie trailers.

Access: This is a database system like MySQL that is often used as the backbone of various applications.

MsSql: This is a relational database often used with Cold Fusion or ASP

Therefore, if you use Windows applications property as a function of your site, you may want to consider Windows hosting. But if not, the platform you choose, probably does not matters. Instead should focus on reputation, features and price for the package you are considering.

Data protection has always been the most important task for professionals dealing with Windows. Many experts take backups to tape or disk. Larger IT organizations can afford to use more complex solutions offered by other companies. For the rest of us, it is free solutions offered by Microsoft.

Experts formerly used Microsoft’s free utility called NTBackup. But no longer. Windows Server 2008 offers a new set of tools to backup and try to show how easy it is to use them in the new Windows Server 2008 R2. Even if you use the tools to backup offered by other companies, we know the tools and support to be able to quickly create a backup. Please note that this tool does not support backups created with NTBackup.

Installation – Important Information

First, install the backup feature, because it is not installed by default. To do this using the Add Features Wizard in the Server Manager, add the position of program features backup of Windows Server (Figure 1). I will use the command-line tools to be able to use Windows PowerShell, which I describe further below. In order to install these features, you can also use command-line tools such as a ServerManagercmd.exe: C: \ servermanagercmd-install backup-features.

Figure 1 Using the Add Features Wizard to add the position: The program features backup of Windows Server and Tools Command Prompt.

Then, specify backup locations. Backups can be stored on a network, shared in the local volume or on a dedicated disk. You cannot back up data to tape, but due to the increased capacity and wide availability of inexpensive mass storage USB is not a problem. However, there are several aspects.

In the case of a program called Windows Backup, there is considerable redundancy in the context of indexes, directories, and file handling. It looks completely different than the file creation. Zip. We cannot assume that a 100 KB file will be equal to 100 KB of backup, because it will be using much more space.

During the backup to a network share, we need to be careful in terms of accessing control at the file level, and ensure the integrity and security of backups. Also, remember that the execution of the next backup to a network share will replace the previous backup. So best bet is to create subfolders for subsequent backups. A similar situation occurs if backup local volume.

The main advantage when using a network share or volume is that a program called Windows Backup creates a .Vhd that includes all the files in the backup. After determining the location of the backup program for Windows Backup, it creates a top level folder named WindowsImageBackup. This folder contains a backup folder on each computer. Backup versions are arranged by date and you can see folders such as: Backup 2011-02-28 141606th Inside the folder, there are backups of files and file. Vhd. File. Vhd can be installed on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Depending on the requirements of backup and archiving, you can just move this file to ensure long-term storage device, or burn it to DVD.

The easiest and quickest way is to use the included dedicated disk. You can connect the drive internally or externally via USB or FireWire. Microsoft recommends that you provide sufficient space to perform backup 2.5 currently protected data. The disk is formatted and will not be visible under normal management tools, although you can view it in Disk Management. You can use the drives with a maximum capacity of 2 TB.

Backup Job

Backup of Windows is used to create a system for securing the server. It allows for the inclusion of a scheduled backup job to create files and system state or system recovery in terms of “from scratch”. Microsoft is based on the assumption that the user for this purpose will use the one scheduled job. I assume that you are using a feature called Windows Backup due to limited budget and are aware of the limitations in the context of the maximum level of protection.

After installing the Backup of Windows Server Manager, expand Storage and select Backup of Windows Server. In the Actions pane, select “Schedule Backup” which will run the Wizard to schedule backups. On the Introduction screen, click Next.
In step 2 specify the type of backup. You should try to perform a full backup servers.

You can also create custom backup and select items, such as certain files and system state. Later I will present how to perform fast backup file, but now assume that the user wants to fully secure his dedicated server.

The third step is to determine when to run the backup job. Typically, a single backup copy should be sufficient, but the backup job can be run more frequently than once in a day. In the case of critical files, it is recommended to make a few copies per day.

The fourth step is to determine the backup storage location. Microsoft recommends that you use a dedicated hard drive. Please note that this drive will be reformatted and it cannot be used for any other purpose. Backups can also be stored on a network share or volume.

Do not ignore any warnings or restrictions. You might see a warning message reminding you that the drive is formatted.

If not all drives are visible, click Show all available drives to refresh the view. After selecting the new drive, you will see a warning. Then you can confirm your backup settings. In case of errors, click Back and correct the settings. If all the operations are performed correctly, the summary is displayed on the screen. The next day, you can check the node Windows Backup Server in order to familiarize yourself with the results or errors.

Using Windows Backup, you can also perform a one-time backup. In the Actions pane, click One-time backup. You can use the same settings as in the case of a scheduled task, or select other. In other settings, you must run the wizard again and enter the new parameters. For example, you can copy files to a network share. Please note that all backups existing in one folder will be overwritten. The backup begins immediately. If you frequently perform a separate backup job, use a solution based on a script or command-line feature in Windows PowerShell. I will describe this procedure later.

Restoring Data

The version information in the Windows backup timestamp is used. Selecting a Recovery task invokes a simple wizard. Select the appropriate source of backup. The Recovery Wizard displays a control that contains the date and time for all available backup (see Figure 2). Please choose a backup copy. Depending on the type of backup only one option can be available.

Figure 2 Selection of backups available in the Recovery Wizard.

Then select the type of data to be recovered. Selecting files and folders allows to distinguish the files that will be recovered. Unfortunately you cannot select files from multiple directories. You can easily recover all your files or selected files from one directory. It should be borne in mind when configuring the backup job.

When recovering files, you must specify the destination folder, which may be the original folder or another location. If there is a current version, you can also control the operation after restoring the current file. You can create a copy, so you have the two versions and can replace the existing version, or you can skip the detection of restoring the existing version. The recovery process is carried out immediately.

Using the WBADMIN.EXE tools

If the backup tool is installed from the command line, there are several additional options. When you open a command prompt, it should be familiar with the tool WBADMIN.EXE. With this tool, you can configure a scheduled backup, but using a graphical user interface is much easier. This tool allows you to create convenient backups. After entering the following command displays help on the syntax:

C: \> wbadmin start backup /?

For lack of space I can not describe all the options, but I’ll show you how to use command-line tool, you can periodically make a backup of files to a network share:

@ Echo off:: Demo-Backup.bat: demonstration using WBADMIN.EXE script on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server backup rem set the UNC share backupshare = \ mycompany-dc01 \ backup files and folders rem include the set include = c: \ scripts c: \ files rem define variables for date time building the folder name set m =% date: ~ 4,2% set d =% date: ~ 7,2% set y =% date: ~ 10,4% set h =% time: ~ 0,2% set min =% time: ~ 3,2% set sec =% time: ~ 6,2% rem Defining a new folder like \ \ mycompany-dc01 \ backup \ RESEARCHDC \ 12152009_132532 set newfolder backupshare% =% \% computername% \% m%% d%% _% s% h%% min%% sec% echo Creating% newfolder% mkdir% newfolder% rem Run the backup echo Backing up%% include the %% wbadmin newfolder start backup-backuptarget:% newfolder% include:% include%-quiet rem Clear variables Set backupshare = set include = set m = d = the set set y = h = set set set min = sec = set newfolder =

If you do not want to replace all existing backups, so I create a new folder, named in part consisting of a computer name and the date and time stamp. With the code contained in a batch execution of that sentence is not difficult. The main function of the script is called WBADMIN.EXE tool to create a backup copy in a particular share. To customize this step, please refer to the help on the syntax. With the script itself, you can configure a scheduled task in Task Scheduler. The Backup Wizard allows you to create only one scheduled task, but with WBADMIN.EXE tool you can create any number of tasks. In addition, this tool also allows you to backup system states.

To view the tasks performed for the backup, use this command: C: \> get wbadmin versions.

Pay special attention to the version identifier, because this value will be necessary to recover the files using the command WBADMIN (in this order, you can also use the Recovery Wizard.)

Backup using Windows PowerShell

Backup using the command line, you can also create applets with PowerShell commands in Windows Backup. To gain access to these additives, you must first load the Backup snap-in Windows:

PS C: \> add-pssnapin Windows.ServerBackup

To view the applets included the command, use the Get-Command:

PS C: \> get-command-pssnapin windows.serverbackup

Unfortunately the backup job is a multistep process. Commands can be entered at the command interactively, but it is easier to do this using a script. Below is a version of the original batch file format version of Windows PowerShell:

# Requires-version 2.0 # requires-pssnapin Windows.ServerBackup # Demo-WBBackup.ps1 $ policy = New-WBPolicy $ files = new-WBFileSpec c: \ scripts c: \ files Add-wbFileSpec-policy policy-$ $ files filespec $ backdir = ("\ \ mycompany-dc01 \ backup \ {0} \ {1: MMddyyyy_hhmmss}"-f $ env: computername (get-date)) write-host "Creating $ backdir"-foregroundcolor Green mkdir $ backdir | out-null $ backupLocation = New-WBBackupTarget-network $ backdir Add-WBBackupTarget-Policy $ policy-Target $ backupLocation write-host "Backing up files is the $ $ backdir"-policy $ foregroundcolor Green Start-WBBackup-Policy $ policy

Applets Windows PowerShell commands are for creating rules for the performance.

This shall include files or volumes used to back up or delete it, and also allows you to perform backups of files and set other options. Moreover, it is possible to create recovery tasks such as: “the state system” and “from scratch”. In this example, a straight back up of several directories will be performed. Applet Start-WBBackup start backup job.

In the command applets Backup utility of Windows, unfortunately, it is missing one vital element: an applet which allows to restore data. I suspect that the creators did not want to provide tools that automate tasks, but for this purpose you can use WBADMIN.EXE. Perhaps this cmdlet will be added in future releases. Currently, files can be recovered using the Recovery Wizard or the tool WBADMIN.EXE.

Now, on the user

Once you get acquainted with these tools, you will probably notice that the world does not end with the Backup program in Windows. It should also reflect on their usefulness in specific strategies for backing up and using them in future business plans. In several respects Backup Windows is limited, however, to scripts and application files.

Vhd provides some opportunities to circumvent these restrictions. The user simply needs a little more consideration of the execution of specific tasks. And as with all softwares, to make backups before serious use of them in the organization to carry out several attempts to “dry.” We cannot allow a situation when the user knows the tool only when problems arise.

Explore the tools on the horizon when a storm is not coming, not at the time of the disaster.

Let’s talk a bit more about Cloud Computing….

Imagine an ASP.NET application installed on a group of servers for serving requests coming from web clients. Imagine that behind this battery of servers we have a group of machines for business rules, coordination of processes or services introduced in WCF – Windows Communication Foundation, providing functionality for this application.

Also found in the back-end machines- databases or systems integration with legacy enterprise applications accessing the so-called lines of business, or LOB – Line of Business Applications. This scenario is very common in business today, implemented in their own infrastructure (on-premise) or possibly with machinery suppliers and local hosts.

From a marketing campaign, which puts company in evidence, or even because of the growing interest in application functionality, the transaction volume is expected to grow over time, increasing the number of requests or even concurrent users and pages Solution Services. In your planning, you can prepare for this growth, triggering buying more dedicated hosting servers, more network infrastructure and configuration of the new part of the IT application. With this growth, we gained an additional cost of operation, more machines to manage, monitor, while you become responsible for updating system software and installation of the application functionality on more machines. The risks and challenges increase, it is not true?

Now imagine that the volume of access requests decrease for some reason, stabilizing at a level less than the amount originally planned for growth, going back to the original volume of access. The machines are now idle most of the time, while consuming operation costs, administration, power, monitoring, etc. It would be interesting to simply change a configuration file and “deprovisioning” these additional machines, paying back the original cost of the system? How about doing this provisioning as many times as you want, as long as necessary?

The scenario presented is a perfect model for cloud computing and Windows Azure.

Cloud computing:

Simply, we can define cloud computing or cloud hosting as an environment for processing and storing massive data, high scalability and high availability, accessible via web interfaces such as HTTP, REST and SOAP, installed in data center around the latest generation world. A great feature of this model is the provisioning of elastic computing: looking at the example above, we can start the operation of the system with 10 machines planned for the front-end and back end.

With the increasing volume of requests, we can hire new machines, moving to a scenario of 20 machines to the front-end and back-end, dynamically, by setting the environment via an administration portal, for example. After the peak usage, we can simply return to the original configuration of 10 machines, just updating the configuration of the environment in the cloud.

This power configuration is known as elastic computing, where provisioning is done dynamically according to application demand. At the same time, new models of contraction, subscription services and associated licensing, where the company can only pay for the infrastructure that it actually uses.

Doing a little math, you’ll see that the scenario of cloud computing may offer a significant cost reduction in administration and operation of IT in business, which has accounted for the increased interest of customers and software vendors about the model, as Microsoft itself .

An operating system in the cloud

Windows Azure is an operating system that runs in various data centers worldwide. Among the features found in Windows Azure highlight its ability for “utility computing”, where various services are offered by the operating system to manage and abstract features present in the data center, including:

• Easy to expand to new locations (geo-distribution);
• Live update of new software features;
• Applying patches and fixes operating system;
• Diagnosis and recovery from hardware failures in their own data center;
• Large storage capacity with high availability;
• Dealing with traffic growth;
• Diagnose and respond to service failures;

Some application scenarios are particularly adherent to the cloud computing model, such as:

• SaaS LOB Applications, or lines of business applications on SaaS – Software as a Services offering features. Some examples are SaaS CRM, SaaS HR, ERP SaaS, etc.
• Collaborative Web Applications involving multiple devices and users with the handling of different data formats.
• Hub applications with shared data, involving a growing volume of data shared among several companies, such as supply chain scenarios, integration of businesses, etc.
• Web Applications with Business Intelligence and Data Mining, with increasing volumes of data and information storage;

Cloud services, cloud processes, data in the cloud, on-premise/off-premise collaboration, interoperability with other platforms in the cloud and a series of tools is used for developing applications.