Dedicated Hosting Uncovered

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

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is rather simple. If your corporation has a data-heavy web site, or just has very specific web server configuration requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not a problem. You are given root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and interfering with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

The majority of website hosting providers, including us at HostFraser.com, offer several hardware configurations you can select from in accordance with your necessities. The configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated packages via an SSH terminal only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to give full root privileges to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we offer does not give you full root privileges and is mostly appropriate for someone who runs a lot of web sites that demand lots of system resources, but wants to manage the sites, databases and mail addresses through an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should choose 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 case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at HostFraser.com 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 servers as well. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges erases something by accident.