What Precisely are Dedicated Servers?
When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic types - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host a lot of customers and so the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private servers offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to perform everything you want without intervening with anyone else.
Why would you need a dedicated servers?
Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your firm has a big website, or just has very explicit server setup requirements, the smartest choice is a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You are granted root access and can use 100 percent of the web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your web sites.
Hardware specs
Most website hosting corporations, incl. us at , provide several different hardware configurations you can choose from in line with your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy tool if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The hosting CP of your preference
If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers through an SSH console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to give root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software tool that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who has numerous web sites that swallow lots of resources, but desires to administer the web pages, databases and mails via an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full server root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.
Web server monitoring and backup procedures
Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system 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 servers too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges deletes something by accident.