Dedicated Hosting Servers Explained

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 main sorts - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate a lot of customers and thus the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server plans give you more configuration independence, but also influence other VPS servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the option to perform everything you choose without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your corporation has a intense-traffic web page, or just has very explicit web server setup requirements, the most logical option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the greater price is of no concern. You are granted complete root-level access and can use 100% of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your websites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of shared hosting firms, including us at Avarhost, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from on the basis of your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a convenient graphical user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you choose to give full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not include complete server root access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who owns many sites that require lots of system resources, but wishes to manage the websites, databases and mailbox accounts through a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting web server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting 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 enabled. Here at Avarhost the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges deletes something by accident.