Dedicated Hosting Revealed

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three basic varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate numerous customers and therefore the system resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the chance to perform everything you prefer without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a big website, or simply has very precise server architecture requirements, the proper option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not an issue. You acquire full root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting service providers, including us at Vehosty, offer several hardware architectures you can pick from based on your demands. The configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different traffic quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell connection only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to give access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel GUI that we offer does not offer complete root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns plenty of web portals that absorb lots of system resources, but prefers to administer the sites, databases and e-mail boxes via an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the server solely 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 problem with your dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Vehosty 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 hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two server hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges deletes something unintentionally.