I’m sure we’ve all seen that joke sign, “PLAN AHEad”, where the words take up too much room and the last few letters are smaller and smashed together to avoid running off the edge of the sign. It’s an excellent visualization of the importance of planning and forcasting when choosing a dedicated server. You don’t want to quickly run out of room when choosing CPU power.

It’s a delicate balance between budget and processor. One doesn’t want to overpay for a CPU (or CPUs) that sit there yawning, barely breaking a sweat. On the other hand, it’s frustrating to discover that once you have your website up, database loaded, and mail enabled on your server, the CPU is pegged. One wants to get at least six good months out of a server before having to look to upgrade due to increased business. (Of course, having to upgrade your server because your business has gone “bananas” is a great problem to have and we wish that on all of our customers.)
Enter FastServers.Net’s team of Sales Engineers…

We’ll work with you to determine the perfect balance between server and budget. While figuring customer needs is sometimes an inexact and nebulous task, (every website is unique, traffic patterns are unique, every customer is unique) we’re experienced in getting you in the right solution for your business. And when that time comes to scale up, we are experts at migrating you to a beefier server, multiple server solution, or load-balanced configuration.

One of the things I enjoy the most about my job is speaking with potential customers about their needs, getting them set up with the right solution, and checking with them down the road to find that they are happy customers of FastServers.Net.