How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function
When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three main types - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers host a lot of customers and hence the system resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to do everything you prefer without interfering with anyone else.
Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?
Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-swallowing online portal, or just has very exact server architecture requirements, the wisest option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You gain root privileges and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your web portals.
Hardware architectures
The majority of shared hosting companies, incl. us at , offer several hardware configurations you can select from depending on your requirements. The configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The web hosting CP of your preference
If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant full server root privileges to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting CP GUI that we provide does not give you full root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains numerous sites that require a lot of system resources, but prefers to manage the web sites, databases and email box accounts using an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete server root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.
Server monitoring and backup procedures
Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root-level access deletes something by accident.