How Dedicated Hosting Servers Operate

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three basic kinds - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web hosting servers accommodate multiple customers and hence the resources per account are restricted, VPS hosting offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the chance to do everything you choose without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your company has a heavy resource-demanding web page, or simply has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the most intelligent choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is not a concern. You are granted full server root access and can use 100 percent of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting corporations, incl. us at Supportive Hosting, offer different hardware configurations you can select from in keeping with your necessities. The hardware architectures include different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a handy GUI if you wish to use the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated hosting through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to grant full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software that we provide does not give you full server root access and is mostly suitable for someone who maintains plenty of sites that devour a lot of system resources, but wishes to manage the web portals, databases and electronic mails via an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web 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 case of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Supportive Hosting 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 provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges deletes something unintentionally.