Dedicated Hosting Unveiled

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three major kinds - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers host numerous clients and thus the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to perform everything you desire without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a high resource-consuming web portal, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the most appropriate option is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You acquire complete root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting providers, including us at hostprod.com, provide different hardware configurations you can choose from depending on your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you wish to use the web hosting server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia Control Panel interface that we provide does not include full server root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who has plenty of online portals that devour plenty of system resources, but wishes to administer the web pages, databases and mail addresses via an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of using the dedicated server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at hostprod.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 hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on two server hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access erases something accidentally.