What Does Dedicated Servers Hosting Signify?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers host many clients and hence the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more server configuration freedom, but also affect other VPS servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the option to perform everything you wish without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a high resource-swallowing site, or just has very exact server architecture requirements, the best choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a concern. You have full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting vendors, including us at handhonline.co.uk, offer several hardware architectures you can select from based on your demands. The configurations include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you would like to use the hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH tunnel only. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant root privileges to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer full root-level access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who maintains many sites that swallow a lot of system resources, but wants to administer the web portals, databases and email box accounts through an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

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 server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at handhonline.co.uk the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 server hard disks as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access erases something by mistake.