How Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Operate?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 basic varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting web servers accommodate lots of clients and therefore the resources per account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the autonomy to perform everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a intense-traffic web page, or just has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the right choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is of no importance. You are granted complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting distributors, including us at Web Hosting Dorks, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from according to your needs. The configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a convenient GUI if you would like to use the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting via a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to grant complete root access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a fine idea. The Hepsia hosting CP user interface that we provide does not offer root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who runs multiple websites that absorb lots of resources, but would like to manage the sites, databases and email boxes through an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Web Hosting Dorks the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access deletes something accidentally.