Dedicated Server Articles

Dedicated server plans are differentiated by processor, RAM, storage configuration, and bandwidth. Picking the wrong tier means either paying for capacity you don’t use or capping out before your application is ready to need more. This guide walks through how to match your workload requirements to the right plan, using InMotion Hosting’s current server lineup…

IPMI stands for Intelligent Platform Management Interface. It’s a hardware-level management system built into most enterprise server motherboards that allows you to monitor and control a server independently of its operating system. If your OS crashes, your kernel panics, or your network stack stops responding, IPMI is still available. That’s the core value proposition.

A CDN is only as fast as what it’s pulling from. When a CDN edge node needs to fetch an uncached asset from your dedicated server — a cache miss — the speed of that origin response determines how long the user waits. An origin server that responds in 50ms delivers a very different user…

Monthly per-seat fees for UCaaS platforms add up fast. A company with 50 employees paying $30-50/seat for business phone service pays $18,000-30,000 annually for communications infrastructure that a self-hosted Asterisk/FreePBX deployment on a dedicated server replaces at a fraction of the cost. The tradeoff is configuration complexity and the responsibility to keep the system running.For…

Running live streams through Twitch or YouTube is fine until you need control they don’t give you — custom latency, multiple simultaneous streams, audience-specific routing, or a setup where the platform takes no cut of monetization. Self-hosted streaming on a dedicated server solves all of these, but the hardware and configuration requirements are specific. Getting…

Most infrastructure cost comparisons show monthly prices. Monthly price is the least useful number for planning infrastructure spend — it hides the compounding costs of hardware refresh, staff time, and technology debt that make a “cheaper” option more expensive over a planning horizon.

A single dedicated server handles most production web applications well. At some point, it doesn’t — either because traffic has grown beyond what one server can serve, because you need redundancy so a hardware failure doesn’t take the application offline, or because your database has become large enough that it should run on dedicated hardware…

Every engineering organization that outgrows shared or VPS hosting eventually confronts the same decision: build your own servers (custom hardware, colocation) or buy managed dedicated hosting from a provider. The answer isn’t universal. It depends on your team’s technical depth, your capital budget, how specialized your hardware requirements are, and whether managing physical infrastructure is…

The article discusses the inadequacies of pure cloud solutions for consistent high-demand workloads, advocating for a hybrid architecture. It recommends using dedicated servers for core services and cloud for burst capacity and disaster recovery. This approach is more cost-effective, especially for intermittent peak traffic, by leveraging dedicated resources during baseline usage.

The Core Difference Dedicated Server Hosting: The hosting provider owns the physical hardware. You rent access to it, typically with a managed service layer. Hardware failure, replacement, and data center infrastructure (power, cooling, network) are the provider’s problem.Continue Reading

Note: These calculations and pricing are current as of March, 10th 2026 and are subject to change. The CFO wants a number. Not “better performance” or “more control” — an actual number showing that $99/month to $349/month for a dedicated server is worth more than whatever you’re spending now.This article works through the ROI calculation…

“Never trust, always verify” is a useful principle. On bare metal servers, it’s also an implementation challenge that most hosting guides skip over. The zero trust model was developed to address the failure of perimeter-based security — the assumption that anything inside the network boundary is trustworthy. That assumption breaks down in every real infrastructure…

The difference between a disaster and an incident is whether your backups work. Most server operators find out which category they’re in at the worst possible moment — during an active ransomware attack, a botched migration, or a disk failure on a Friday afternoon.A backup strategy for dedicated servers requires more than a nightly cron…