What Actually is Dedicated Servers Web Hosting?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic kinds - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers host multiple clients and thus the system resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server plans give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the liberty to perform everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-absorbing web portal, or simply has very specific server setup requirements, the most appropriate option is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not a concern. You obtain full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware specs

Most shared web hosting providers, incl. us at HostFlex, offer several hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is useful software if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia Control Panel interface that we offer does not offer complete server root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains multiple sites that require plenty of system resources, but desires to administer the web sites, databases and mail addresses via an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the web server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at HostFlex the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting distributor 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 hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges deletes something by accident.