Description of Dedicated Servers

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most extensively used hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are OK for small-size online portals that do not require plenty of resources and do not get that many web site visitors, but for high resource-requiring web sites with many 1000's of viewers, a more powerful platform is demanded. If you would like to have a steady, top-class shared hosting solution that can handle even millions of daily visits, a dedicated server is your finest alternative.

Tackle the Heavy Load Generated by Your Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated web server hosting service, you lease a whole web hosting server whose system resources will be utilized solely by your sites. Just like any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processing units running at a given speed, a particular amount of RAM, one or more hard drives, and so on. A dedicated web hosting server is actually a computer with a hardware configuration aimed to tackle high load and certain software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the websites stored on it to be reachable online.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting corporation, or by the customer, based on the concrete dedicated server plan. In either instance, the side handling the server has access to a software tool to reboot it at any particular moment. Management is done through a Control Panel tool that enables you to keep track of the services running on the dedicated server.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are different hosting server Operating Systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, an array of Linux distributions, etc. Specific hosting service providers offer dedicated servers running one particular Operating System, whereas others offer clients an option. MSSQL databases and .NET sites need a Windows server, for instance, and will not work on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven websites utilizing MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated server, learn what the hosting distributor provides and what the requirements of your website are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software needed in order to manage a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you obtain the dedicated web hosting server, you can upload your files and bring the site online. The majority of web hosting providers grant root privileges, in other words you can activate any software platforms on the dedicated server and revise any settings. Given script-driven software platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-activated in order for them to work. Various shopping cart scripts, for instance, have such a requirement, and having root-level access to the dedicated server is key for launching a web store. Other hosting distributors do not grant full server root access, but help the client install the necessary software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting service, which includes full server root access.

Dedicated Server by 'VirtualNIX'

The content on the dedicated server can be handled either through a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or via a web hosting Control Panel graphical interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of hosting CP graphical user interfaces out there, and typically hosting distributors offer a couple of them, and with full root access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All web files, databases, mail accounts, access logs and script installations are managed easily via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Some Control Panels also comprise a reseller backend panel, so if you select a dedicated server, you can not merely host your website files, but also offer shared hosting packages to other users to make revenue. We, at VirtualNIX, provide free-of-cost invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server plan of ours, which permits you to found your very own web hosting firm and gain revenue in no time since the web hosting business niche is incessantly blossoming.