Well i have two questions. 1. If i am purchasing a dedicated server how can i know i am really allotted a dedicated server. 2.How to find the specifications of the server. Please help.
You can find in the processor or other hardware informations. If the machine is vps the names of the hardwares is different from real.
Depends on your hardware and software configuration, but basically you can know everything if you have root. Which OS?
Hi thank you for your reply. Let me make myself a bit more clear. Say if i am buying a server(2gb quad core let's assume) from xxx company how can i know whether they are hosting my website in the same server which i ordered. A reverse ip check will not be effective i believe. If they give me a dedicated ip instead of a dedicated server there will be no way of finding it. Please help.
I assume you are on a Linux bos, dmesg command will give you some info. Also, "free -m" command let you know the memory capacity too.
Shared hosting is the same, but you will need ssh to execute those commands. There are some PHP scripts allowing to view system resources too, you can try to search on hotscripts.
If you buy a server from a reputable company (theplanet.com), you will have no need to question what you are buying.
If you have access to SSH, login and use the following commands: cat /proc/cpuinfo Code (markup): Here, the important line is one that begins with "CPU Mhz", that will be your CPU speed. And then run cat /proc/meminfo Code (markup): Which will tell you how much total memory you have in your system.