How Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Function
When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three principal kinds - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers host multiple customers and thus the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server plans offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to do everything you see fit without messing with anyone else.
Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?
Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a heavy resource-consuming web portal, or just has very special web server configuration requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the higher price is of no importance. You have full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and meddling with your online portals.
Hardware configurations
The majority of shared web hosting corporations, incl. us at , provide several different hardware architectures you can choose from on the basis of your demands. The hardware architectures offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a handy GUI if you wish to use the dedicated server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use SSH for all the modifications 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 user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal only. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to give full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer complete root-level access and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains a lot of sites that demand plenty of resources, but wants to administer the online portals, databases and e-mailbox accounts through a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root privileges and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the hosting server just 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 web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges erases something unintentionally.