Dedicated Hosting Servers Uncovered
When we talk about hosting servers, there are three principal varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate plenty of clients and thus the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the opportunity to carry out everything you prefer without intervening with anyone else.
Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?
Dedicated hosting servers are typically much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a resource-absorbing web site, or just has very exact web server configuration requirements, the proper option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You receive root privileges and can use 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and messing with your web pages.
Hardware architectures
The majority of hosting providers, incl. us at , provide several different hardware configurations you can choose from in line with your necessities. The configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a handy tool if you wish to use the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The Control Panel of your choice
If you are a confident Linux user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers via SSH only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to give complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we provide does not give you root-level access and is chiefly suitable for someone who owns numerous web portals that devour lots of system resources, but wants to administer the web portals, databases and e-mailboxes via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root privileges and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.
Server monitoring and backup procedures
Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access erases something by mistake.