How Dedicated Hosting Works

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 main categories - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate numerous clients and so the system resources per user account are limited, VPS packages offer more configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you decide without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your company has a high resource-demanding site, or simply has very explicit server architecture requirements, the most logical choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You get complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting suppliers, incl. us at Reseller Hosting Center, offer several different hardware architectures you can pick from in consonance with your necessities. The configurations include different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you would like to use the dedicated web hosting server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to give complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software tool that we provide does not give you root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who runs plenty of web portals that devour plenty of resources, but would rather manage the web sites, databases and e-mails using an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Reseller Hosting Center 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 server as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given access deletes something by mistake.