Dedicated Services Definition
When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three main types - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host many customers and therefore the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS accounts give you more server configuration freedom, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out everything you decide without intervening with anyone else.
Why would you require a dedicated server?
Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your corporation has a big web portal, or just has very precise web server setup requirements, the best choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a problem. You receive full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the physical server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and meddling with your web pages.
Hardware specs
The majority of hosting firms, including us at , offer several hardware architectures you can select from according to your demands. The hardware configurations include different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The hosting CP of your choosing
If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting CP GUI that we provide does not give you full server root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who owns a lot of sites that absorb lots of resources, but prefers to manage the web portals, databases and electronic mail accounts using an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root-level access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the web server solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.
Server monitoring and backup services
Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. 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 server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access deletes something by accident.