What Exactly are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three main categories - web hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web servers host a lot of customers and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you decide without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-devouring online portal, or simply has very explicit server configuration requirements, the right option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and stability, the higher price is of no importance. You are granted full root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

Most website hosting firms, incl. us at Official Domain Name Store, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from in consonance with your requirements. The hardware architectures include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated hosting through an SSH terminal exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who has lots of web sites that absorb plenty of resources, but wishes to manage the web portals, databases and emails through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Official Domain Name Store the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access deletes something unintentionally.