Server Basket Help Center

Find help for everything related to servers. Servers come in a range of capabilities and form factors. This page helps you find the right servers, suitable features, and configurations for your business needs.
Make informed decisions referring to the buying guides and configuration tips. Our product line covers HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, and SuperMicro servers. This section helps first-time buyers and adept IT professionals have clear explanations, brand comparisons, and step-by-step instructions to make server selection and setup simpler.

We empower you with clear tutorials and the right information to help you choose the right service. We host dedicated, cloud servers, and VPS for small businesses to production-level workloads, bringing years of our practical insights to reduce the complexity of hosting tasks.
Learn how hosting works, fine-tune performance, and select the right OS with our hosting insights and tutorials. Our extensive library covers how-tos, FAQs, setup guides, resource allocation, and security practice lessons.

Find here vendor-specific compatibility matrices and troubleshooting documentation for setting up and configuring LAN cards, RAID controllers, SFP modules, firewalls, and switches. The support topics comprise a thoughtfully created list of recommendations, which include:

• Setting up firewall security policies and rules
• Configuring switches, port settings, and link aggregation
• RAID setup directives for different RAID levels
• SFP module compatibility checklist
• Each vendor’s network appliance compatibility guide
• List of supported operating systems for hardware

Get practical insights on our refurbished server hardware and components. Learn more about the credibility, certification, and warranty covers on our refurbished servers, workstations, and components.

• Delve deeper into ServerBasket’s hardware restoration and testing processes, covering testing, quality checks, burn-in procedures, and the grading standards by which they are brought to a near-new condition.
• Make an informed decision by comparing the durability, scalability, and usage terms.

This concise guide serves as a learning centre for Cloud & Virtualization concepts. It contains documentation, training, information, and a detailed view of computing and virtualization techniques. Enterprises can refer to it:

• Select among VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, or KVM platforms to build virtual environments
• Understand Cloud architectures, Private, Public, and Hybrid models.
• It exposes tools to set up & administer Private Cloud, Security, Management, & BCDR.
• It explains resource pooling, migration process, scalability planning, and cost optimization.

Our server guides accelerate and simplify server installation to support IT teams in maintaining stable, fast, secure servers and long-term operations. Read tutorials and follow well-designed step-by-step guides.

• It assists in installing and configuring popular OS and post-installation configurations.
• Walks you through finding the right RAID, setting up, monitoring, maintaining, and understanding RAID levels and their limitations.
• Find tuning resources to monitor key server metrics, tools, and optimise unused services, settings, and hardware.

Access detailed guidance on securing servers, implementing best practices, and recovery strategies. IT administrators get a detailed view of data protection concepts and backup solutions. The section features:

• How to encrypt data, implement access controls, configure firewalls, describe IDS/IPS monitoring, and perform security audits.
• Explanation of SSL certification, its verification, implementation steps, and common errors.
• Backup practices and recommendation guides, automation, testing, restoration, and off-site/onsite storage
• Execution manuals and secure wiping.

This guide covers common issues in server hardware and components. There are in-depth manuals for:

• Symptom-based diagnosing guides, error-code listing, physical cabling, connection checks, and instructions for connectivity and driver compatibility.
• Recommendations on maintenance and prevention measures, using management software, firmware practices, warranty, and services
• Features knowledge-based articles for resolving common hardware and software issues, addressing performance issues, component replacements, and correcting OS-based errors.

This allows you to build stable infrastructure and avoid any unexpected failures.

Find tools, product comparison guides, and user feedback to assess different products, models and make well-informed decisions.

• Our unbiased, detailed overviews, open support cases, and vendor summaries help buyers choose the right product and specifications. Get clear descriptions, pros, cons, and performance benchmarks of products.
• Find here the metrics tested in real-world settings pertaining to expandability, energy usage, reliability, and suitability.
• The reviews from technical and non-technical users support better decision-making.

Explore updates about the going IT trends and server technologies through news, blogs, and solutions pages. See articles and reports on:

• AI and edge computing
• 5G, virtualization, networking, containerization
• Cybersecurity
• Modernizing data centers
• Latest processor technologies
• Consumption models
• IoT, server architectures, and Cloud integration
• Read the active topics and the practical impacts of innovations.

A vast information is shared here, from the server start-up guides, structured tutorials, recommended videos, and alerts.

• Find basic definitions and quickly get resolutions for common issues, definitions, and frequently arising problems in FAQs.
• Several resources and documentation are available, including product manuals, specifications, access to the latest drivers/ software, tools, and security information.
• This knowledge base encompasses basic self-help to deep technical resources, enabling users to utilise the servers independently.