A server is a software and hardware that linked with the network. It allows clients to request and receives response. Through server, the user can configure it to access to a network, send or receive email, manage tasks, or host a website. It is important to maintain your server and keep it on as it constantly delivers service. If the servers failed, it would affect the whole business and user daily task. There are many types of server and we will discuss some of it in this blog.

File Server

It is used to store and share files. There will have multiple users can access the data at the same time. It will be used by organization to maximize the work’s efficiency.

Domain Name System Server (DNS)

This type of server provide name to a domain. For example, YouTube, Facebook, Linkedin and etc. This server is able to distribute huge among of data at the same time.

Mail Server

It is a very common type of server. You may refer it as e-mail server. It handles and delivers e-mail over a network through internet. As it is continuously running, mail server always ready to send and receive mail rather than requiring every client machine to have its own email system.

Common Types of Failure

We, a Singapore data recovery centre who specialist in recovery, we understand the electrical infrastructure for server is critical. Server with power issue may affect the server indirectly. Insufficient power supply may cause the server keeps rebooting and it will decrease its productivity. Uninterruptible Power Supply should be prepared to prevent it from downtime. Besides, temperature of server room needs to be monitored from time to time because excessive temperature could lead to server failure.

On the other hand, physical hardware failure may cause whole server failure. Based on the configured RAID system, it will cause the data inaccessible or failed to boot up if the missing pieces of data exceed a certain level.

There are various types of error that may cause your server failure. If you failed to access your data, first and for all. DO NOT Panic! To increase the chances of recovery, switch off your server and reach us here and our customer service officer will advise accordingly. To prevent from further damage, please do not attempt to retrieve or rebuild the system of server without knowing the exact root cause failure.

Types of Server Recover

Our data recovery specialist experienced in recovering data from Direct-Attached Storage (DAS), Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN) and Software-Defined Storage (SDS). Because of the huge range of errors, assessment is provided by EHDR and details will be provided for your reference. Contact us to seek for professional advice if require.

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