Dedicated Servers Hosting Description
When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 major types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate a lot of customers and thus the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to do everything you want without messing with anyone else.
Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?
Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is rather simple. If your company has a high resource-devouring web portal, or just has very specific server configuration requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not a problem. You acquire full root access and can use 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web pages.
Hardware architectures
Most shared hosting suppliers, incl. us at , provide different hardware architectures you can pick from in accordance with your necessities. The configurations include different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient GUI if you would like to use the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The web hosting Control Panel of your choice
If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP tool that we offer does not offer complete root-level access and is mostly suitable for somebody who owns plenty of online portals that demand a lot of system resources, but would like to administer the web portals, databases and mailboxes through an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the web hosting server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.
Server monitoring and backup procedures
Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access erases something unintentionally.