Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Definition

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three main sorts - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host many clients and thus the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to carry out everything you wish without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your corporation has a heavy-content web page, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a concern. You have complete server root access and can use 100% of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware specifications

Most shared web hosting suppliers, incl. us at Hesse Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from according to your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated web hosting server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH console 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 choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell tunnel only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to give full root-level access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP user interface that we offer does not give you complete root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who runs plenty of web portals that consume plenty of system resources, but prefers to administer the web portals, databases and e-mail box accounts via an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting server solely 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 web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Hesse 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access deletes something unintentionally.