What Does Dedicated Hosting Represent?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate numerous customers and thus the system resources per user account are restricted, VPS packages offer more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to carry out everything you want without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a large web page, or just has very precise server setup requirements, the right choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is of no importance. You have full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

Most hosting vendors, incl. us at Hosting Wordpress, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from according to your requirements. The hardware configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is convenient software if you want to use the web server for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

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 via a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant full root-level access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software tool that we offer does not include full root-level access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who maintains numerous web pages that require a lot of system resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and email boxes through an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable 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 individual services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on two hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access deletes something unintentionally.