Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 main categories - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate many customers and therefore the resources per account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the possibility to carry out everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a popular web page, or just has very explicit server configuration requirements, the most relevant option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are given full server root access and can utilize 100% of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting service providers, incl. us at hostprod.com, provide several hardware configurations you can choose from as per your necessities. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can select a Control Panel, which is handy software if you wish to use the server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not offer full root privileges and is mainly appropriate for someone who has plenty of web sites that demand lots of resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and email mailbox accounts using an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the hosting server only for yourself, you should pick 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 the event of a predicament with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at hostprod.com the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on two server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access erases something accidentally.