How Does Dedicated Hosting Function?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main categories - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate numerous customers and hence the resources per account are limited, VPS plans offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to carry out everything you think fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your company has a resource-intensive site, or simply has very special web server architecture requirements, the right choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You get full root access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

Most hosting service providers, including us at HostFraser.com, offer several different hardware configurations you can select from on the basis of your requirements. The hardware architectures include different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a handy interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell connection only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to grant complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not include complete root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns numerous web sites that require lots of resources, but wants to administer the web sites, databases and e-mail box accounts through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the web hosting server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at HostFraser.com 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 too. Backups are also an extra option - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access erases something by accident.