When talking about management of a dedicated server, there is a big tent of tasks and jobs that could fit under that description. Nobody has ever said, “Ok, these 12 things are what server management is all about” because new tasks always seem to be added to that list. Some of the rolls might include (but are not limited to):
Operating system updates, script updates, monitoring over the server, simple network and hardware monitoring, tech support for the dedicated server, security monitoring (including antivirus and firewall issues) DDoS protection and prevention and disaster recovery.
As you can see the job of anybody managing a server is a really big one. That isn’t even counting things like load balancing, performance tuning, software installs and more. As you can see I could go on and on with what is expected of a person or team who does the monitoring for any given server. If these are things you really have no real desire to do or jump into with both feet then you might be a good candidate for semi-managed or managed hosting.
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