Explanation of Dedicated Servers Hosting

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main categories - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host plenty of customers and so the system resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to do everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a high-traffic web page, or just has very exact web server setup requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not a problem. You are bestowed with full server root access and can utilize 100% of the hosting server's resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware specifications

Most shared hosting distributors, incl. us at Hepsia, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from based on your demands. The hardware configurations offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is handy software if you wish to utilize the hosting server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH client only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you choose to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we offer does not include full server root privileges and is mostly suitable for someone who maintains numerous sites that devour a lot of resources, but wishes to administer the online portals, databases and electronic mail addresses via a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing 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 the event of a problem with your web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Hepsia 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 server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on two server disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access deletes something by mistake.