What Do Dedicated Servers Represent?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three principal categories - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting web servers host lots of clients and so the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS web hosting offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to do everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a data-heavy site, or just has very special web server architecture requirements, the most relevant option would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is of no concern. You are bestowed with full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware specifications

Most website hosting service providers, including us at Success Hosting, offer several hardware architectures you can select from based on your necessities. The hardware configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated web hosting via an SSH connection only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant full root access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not offer root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who runs a lot of web sites that require plenty of system resources, but would like to manage the web pages, databases and electronic mail aliases through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Success Hosting 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 servers too. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access deletes something unintentionally.