This chapter is designed to teach you the best practices and considerations for server hardware. By understanding the importance of a server's role in a computer network, and possessing knowledge of each server component, we can be vigilant when selecting server hardware. In addition, this chapter teaches you server performance monitoring methodologies and procedures. Performance monitoring will help you to identify the cause of server performance issues at an early stage. In that way, you will be able to react in a timely manner to avoid further degradations of server performance. Lastly, the chapter concludes by uncovering the importance and purpose of logs and alerts in the server monitoring process.
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Understanding server hardware components
- Understanding the role that each component plays
- Understanding...