How Does Dedicated Servers Hosting Operate?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 major types - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate plenty of clients and hence the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration independence, but also influence other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to do everything you think fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a resource-intensive web portal, or simply has very specific web server configuration requirements, the right option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not a problem. You receive complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

Most shared hosting vendors, including us at VirtualNIX, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful tool if you would like to utilize the web hosting server for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give complete server root access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who owns many sites that require plenty of resources, but prefers to administer the online portals, databases and electronic mails through an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root-level access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated web hosting server just for yourself, you should select 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 case of a predicament with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at VirtualNIX 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 server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access erases something unintentionally.