Dedicated Servers Clarified

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 basic varieties - hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host multiple customers and hence the resources per account are limited, VPS offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the chance to carry out everything you think fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-swallowing website, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the smartest choice is a dedicated servers. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is of no concern. You get full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of website hosting distributors, incl. us at Hosting Wordpress, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from in consonance with your necessities. The configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy user interface if you would like to use the dedicated servers for hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to give root privileges to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia Control Panel tool that we provide does not offer full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who owns numerous web portals that absorb lots of resources, but wishes to administer the websites, databases and email mailboxes through an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Hosting Wordpress 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 servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on 2 server hard drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access deletes something accidentally.