Server managment

What Is Server Management?

Server management is the process
of monitoring and maintaining servers
to operate at peak performance.
Server management also encompasses
the management of
hardware, software, security, and backups.
The primary goals of an effective server
management strategy are to:

Minimize—and eliminate—server
slowdowns and downtime
Build secure server environments
Ensure servers continue to meet the
needs of an organization as it evolves

Server Management Basics

Server management basics include management of:
hardware, software, security, and backups.
The following are important elements
of effective server management
any IT strategy or software solution should help address

One of the first step towards maintaining
a healthy server environment
is to understand some server management basics.
Here are some recurring tasks that system
administrators will encounter:

Access:
to manage a server, a server management tool,
server management service or server management software
must to be able to access the server it is trying to manage.

Updates:
One of the most basic server management functions
is the ability to help start and install
software or firmware updates.

Setup:
The ability to set up new software,
add-ons or functionality is often a core
feature of server management.

Monitoring:
You must be able to monitor different types of servers
for status, performance and anomal detection and operations

Optimization:
Some server management tools and services will provide
optimization capabilities to improve
server efficiency and overall operations.

Capacity planning:
A more advanced task is capacity planning
which provides a forecast of server utilization,
helping administrators to plan for when
additional resources will be required.

Alerting:
The ability to alert an administrator,
via email, SMS, Slack or some other messaging system
to different errors and incidents is another
helpful component of server management.

Load Balancin(Servers)
Load balancing is a technique that
ensures an organization's server
does not get overloaded with traffic.
With load balancing measures in place,
workloads and traffic requests
are distributed across server resources to provide
higher resilience and availability.

Types of Servers
some common types of servers that you will most
likely be involved with in Server managment
Understanding what each server does will help you
ensure they’re operating properly.

- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
servers handle transferring data files back and forth
between servers and devices.

- Application servers connect and run applications
used by a large number of users and remove
the need to host applications locally.

- Web servers
display websites in browsers and collect and store website files.

- Database Servers
store large amounts of data needed by organizations to
function and make this information accessible.

- Virtual servers,
also known as virtual machines (VM),
make it possible for multiple servers to be hosted
on a single piece of hardware.
They are more complex to manage but increase
efficiency by allowing admins to add more
compute power with less hardware.

- Proxy servers
create and maintain the connection between
a client and an external server.

Benefits of Server Management Services
There are a number of different reasons
why you should consider using
server management services:

Skills and Experience:
Finding the right staff with the required
skills and experience for different
server management tasks can be challenging.

Operational Costs:
Many server management services are subscription-based
with a monthly or yearly operational cost that
may well be more cost-effective than
ramping up an internal capability.

Scale:
Managing servers at a large scale can often require
monitoring and management at scale as well,
which is something that a server management
service can provide.

Support:
On-call support with guaranteed response times
is often a core benefit offered by the
best server management services.