The server functions as a brain in your application environment. Today's world of technological era has witnessed a lot of business, using server platforms to achieve smart backup, data security, data and application sharing etc. Hence it has become indispensable to monitor the performance of your server and respond to the abnormalities as they show up. Maintaining the server performance is a tedious task as server burn up energy and you need to update your server to see a major distinction in speed and performance. To be practical, upgrading to a new server is not affordable at all times and implementing few effortless changes leads to a big difference in performance.

 

On the off chance that you think you cannot afford more on another server to witness a better performance, you may begin by implementing the techniques mentioned in this article rather than spending more to something you may not require.

 

 

1.Detect Hardware Errors

Ensure that you review the logs periodically to detect any occurrence of network failure, overheating issues etc which signals the hardware problems.

 

2.Log Off When Not In Use

Log off the server when you really don't need to be logged on. This frees up resources to run other applications packed with additional server security.

 

3.Backups Verification

Make sure that your backups are working at the right backup location before deleting important data by running the test recoveries.

 

4.Disk Compression

Unlike before, compression aids to streamline few functions by making the hard disk smaller thereby increasing the performance. However, compression works only for servers that use a lot of individual files as the compressed files must be decompressed to get it worked.

 

5.Review Disk Usage

Try not to utilize your server as an archival storage. Make sure that you delete unwanted data as they constraints security alerts. If your usage surpasses 90% of disk capacity, take a stab at diminishing the use or increase the storage capacity. Else your server may stop responding and all the data will be lost.

 

6.Make Adjustments In Server Control Panel

The applications running in the background should be given priority and their performance should be enhanced by optimizing the server through systems menu in server control panel.

 

7.Keep Your OS And Control Panel Updated

System updates are announced frequently, thus you need to watch out for the updates. Make sure that your server control panel and the software it controls are updated. You can create a schedule for updates if you are unable to automate the updates. With the updated versions you receive real-time alerts when you are prone to vulnerabilities sent through files, emails, attachments etc

 

8.Opt For NTFS

Opt for NTFS, the default system instead of FAT or FAT-32 as NTFS is more secure and faster as it is a transaction based file system.

 

9.Spot Memory Leak

On completing a process, the application returns memory. However, when you run a bad application, there is a memory leak and they request more memory each time without returning any memory which affects the performance, hence it is necessary to spot and fix the memory leak.

 

10.Choose Dedicated Drives

Prefer placing the pagefile on a dedicated drive so that Windows does not require to wait for another application to finish before it can read the pagefile data.

 

11.Disable unused credentials and services

Try not to waste your server resources by removing all the junk store and make sure that you remove the user accounts of the people who are not currently associated with your business. Similarly you can disable the services that you no longer require through service control manager. By doing this, you automatically boosts the performance of the server and overcome the security vulnerabilities.

 

By keeping track of the above-mentioned techniques you can remain proactive and boost the performance of your server. There are cases where you have to upgrade to a larger server to best utilize the resources and maximize the server performance. Otherwise, you can roll out some little improvements that make the lift you require without paying more. For those hoping to make the most out of what they have and extend their assets, these little enhancements can signify enormous investment funds over the long haul.