Need to know how to update Apache on your dedicated hosting account?  Here is a simple walkthrough to help you with the process.

Login to WHM (if Web Host Manager is installed), open Apache Update, and then select Previously Saved Config.  Now you can click Start Customizing Based on Profile.

You will need to choose needed versions of PHP and Apache as well as their components through the few next steps and at the end, you’ll be offered to save the changes you selected and proceed with Apache and PHP compilation.

There you have it, an easy way to get Apache updated on your dedicated hosting server using Web Host Manager (WHM).

How can you keep your VPS or dedicated hosting account from using too much memory?  There are a lot of tips and tricks you may look into, however here are two tried and tested methods for getting this done. 

Stop services you do not need.  For example, if you don’t use email on your server, stop email and pop3/imap services. As for your question about spamd, it is an antispam daemon used to protect email accounts on the server.

Continue optimizing the scripts installed on your site. It is rather possible that one of the scripts on oyur hosting account might not optimized for low memory usage and that could cause issues for you.  If you have trouble, disable each, one by one, till you find the one that is causing the problems.

What steps do you go through to help lower your memory consumption on a dedicated server?

Uptime, no matter if you are talking about dedicated hosting or shared hosting is the time when a server is online, functioning and available.  Now depending on the web host you go with, you might get varying results with how much uptime they promise and how much they really deliver.

Here is a handy bit of information from Web Hosting Talk:

Here’s a handy list to gauge how much downtime one may experience over the course of a year, based on a web hosting company’s uptime guarantees:

• 99.9%: 8 hours 46 minutes
• 99.5%: 43 hours 50 minutes
• 99.0%: 87 hours 39 minutes
• 98.0%: 175 hours 19 minutes

So that should give you, in a nutshell, and average you should look at when it comes to how much bang for your buck you should get.  Uptime may vary from host to host, so it might take some time to figure out which one is selling you the real deal and which one is selling you snake oil.