How Dedicated Servers Hosting Operates

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 basic types - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers host many customers and hence the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server accounts give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to perform everything you want without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a resource-devouring online portal, or just has very explicit server architecture requirements, the most logical option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is of no concern. You are bestowed with full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting distributors, incl. us at NetService Hosting, offer several hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your demands. The configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you want to utilize the web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you choose to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not offer full server root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains lots of web sites that require plenty of resources, but prefers to manage the web portals, databases and mailbox accounts via a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full server root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than using the dedicated hosting web 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 hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at NetService Hosting 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 hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access erases something accidentally.