How Do Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Operate?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three principal sorts - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate many clients and so the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to do everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-demanding website, or simply has very exact web server setup requirements, the wisest choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not a concern. You are bestowed with complete root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware specs

Most website hosting suppliers, incl. us at 123 Get Online, provide several hardware configurations you can choose from depending on your necessities. The configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is useful software if you wish to use the hosting server for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 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 web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH connection only. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you wish to give full server root access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software that we offer does not offer full server root access and is mainly suitable for somebody who runs plenty of web portals that devour plenty of system resources, but would like to administer the web pages, databases and email mailbox accounts via an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at 123 Get Online 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access erases something by accident.