Web Server Hosting Knowledge base » Windows Server 2008 http://www.bodhost.com/web-hosting Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:31:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Windows Server 2008 – Dedicated Server Hosting http://www.bodhost.com/web-hosting/windows-server-2008-dedicated-server-hosting/ http://www.bodhost.com/web-hosting/windows-server-2008-dedicated-server-hosting/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 23:07:27 +0000 bodhost http://www.bodhost.com/web-hosting/?p=945 Microsoft release of Windows Server 2008 has truly been a revolution which is designed to perform for networks, applications. The most important is that it is technology effiicient. Client’s who have been using Windows Server 2003 can easily move to Windows Server 2008 Server. It has been built on the foundations of Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003. New tools, virtualization techniques such as Hyper-V, enhancement in security and managements tools that not only reduces cost for the licenses but also improves the performance on the windows web servers.

With Windows Server 2008, management and deployment is a lot easier when compared to windows server 2003. It’s easier interface when compared to it’s predecessors has proved that it’s completely user friendly. Features such as Windows PowerShell which is basically Command-line shell which allows administrators to automate tasks accross windows cluster servers. It can also deploy OS through network. It also support IPV6 allocations which makes it easier once our IPV4′s are over.

Server Cost installation of Windows Server 2008 allows installation of server roles without actually requiring a graphical interface. Windows Server 2008 has built-in Virtualization software which is basically hypervisor-based server virtualization software – hardware virtualization which will create virtual macgines on a single physical macgine can run other Operating Systems on a single server. This enables you to save more on the virtualization costs that is basically required to be paid to Virtualization software companies. Applications can also be virtualized through Windows Server 2008 centralized application access. Easy Remote access to windows-based programs. Now, this means you do not need a VPN to connect to a client’s server. Windows Server 2008 also comes wih IIS 7.0 which is the next version to IIS 6.0 that was on Windows Server 2003 series. IIS 7.0 is required to unify Web platform that includes ASP.NET, Windows Services and Sharepoint Services. It has been seen that Windows Server 2008 Security has been enhanced. It also prevents any unauthorized connections to the networks, server or data.

Network Access Protection (NAP) checks every network connections to the server. Active Directory Services security has also been enhanced on a Windows Server 2008 Server. Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) and BitLocker Drive Encryption provides complete security to AD database at branch office locations. It also extends to Windows HPC Server 2008.

Windows HPC Server 2008 is utilized to scare different processing costs to improve productivity and reduce the complexity of HPC environment.

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