What Exactly are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 principal kinds - shared hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers host lots of clients and thus the resources per account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to carry out everything you think fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a regularly visited web page, or simply has very special web server architecture requirements, the most reasonable option is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You acquire full root privileges and can use 100% of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware specs

Most shared hosting service providers, incl. us at Hepsia, provide different hardware configurations you can choose from as per your necessities. The configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you want to utilize the hosting server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell tunnel only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you want to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel interface that we offer does not offer root access and is mostly suitable for someone who owns lots of sites that consume plenty of system resources, but desires to manage the sites, databases and e-mail box accounts using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than using the web server just for yourself, you should select 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 the event of a predicament with your web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Hepsia 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 a bonus feature - the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access erases something unintentionally.