What Indeed are Dedicated Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three main kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host lots of clients and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to carry out everything you please without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a high resource-absorbing online portal, or just has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most suitable option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not a concern. You acquire root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting vendors, including us at Success Hosting, offer several hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your needs. The hardware configurations offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is handy software if you want to use the hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to give root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not give you full root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who has a lot of web portals that require lots of resources, but wants to manage the websites, databases and email mailboxes through an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the web hosting server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on 2 server disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access deletes something unintentionally.