Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three principal categories - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate lots of clients and hence the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS accounts offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a heavy resource-absorbing site, or simply has very explicit server architecture requirements, the right option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is of no importance. You acquire root-level access and can use 100% of the physical server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting providers, including us at TheDedicatedHosting.com, offer different hardware architectures you can choose from in line with your requirements. The hardware architectures include different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is handy software if you want to utilize the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software tool that we provide does not offer full root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains many web pages that devour a lot of system resources, but desires to manage the web sites, databases and mailbox accounts using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated web hosting server solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at TheDedicatedHosting.com the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something accidentally.