How Dedicated Servers Hosting Operates

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 principal types - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host multiple customers and therefore the system resources per account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the chance to carry out everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a big web page, or simply has very specific server configuration requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined 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 web server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting service providers, including us at Surver Space, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from according to your necessities. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is convenient software if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell client exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you wish to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who has lots of sites that swallow plenty of system resources, but would like to manage the online portals, databases and e-mailboxes using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated web hosting server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

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 problem with your web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Surver Space the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on two hard disks as a precaution in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access deletes something accidentally.