Dedicated Servers Explanation

Free and paid shared packages are among the most commonly used website hosting solutions on the market. They are suitable for small-scale online portals that do not need lots of resources and do not receive that many visitors, but for heavy resource-consuming web portals with many 1000's of viewers, a more advanced solution is demanded. If you require a rock steady, avant-garde hosting platform that can handle even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your most suitable choice.

Tackle the Heavy Load Caused by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server hosting service, you lease a whole web hosting server whose system resources will be utilized only by your sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated server has one or more CPUs running at a particular speed, a particular amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A dedicated web server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration designed to cope with high load and given software activated on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which allows the sites accommodated on it to be available online.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the hosting service provider, or by the client, on the basis of the particular dedicated server package. In either case, the side handling the dedicated server has access to a software tool to reboot it at any time. Administration is carried out via a hosting CP graphical interface that allows you to keep an eye on the tasks running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Certain web hosting firms offer dedicated servers utilizing one given OS, whereas others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows server, for example, and will not perform on another Operating System, while PHP and HTML based sites using MySQL databases will function on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated server, learn what the provider offers and what the requirements of your site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software needed in order to administer a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated web server, you can upload your files and get the web site online. Most web hosting vendors provide complete root-level access, in other words you can install any software apps on the dedicated server and update any settings. Certain script-based software platforms require server-side libraries that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Different e-commerce software scripts, for example, include such a precondition, and gaining full root-level access to the dedicated server is key for having a web store. Other hosting firms do not provide full server root privileges, but help the client install the needed software applications - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which includes root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'My Dragonweb Hosting'

The web files on the dedicated server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) console or via a web hosting Control Panel interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of hosting Control Panel graphical interfaces in existence, and normally web hosting corporations offer several of them, and with root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All website files, databases, email box accounts, access logs and program installations are managed effortlessly via a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Some web hosting Control Panels also comprise a reseller backend dashboard, so if you settle on a dedicated server, you can not simply host your web site files, but also sell shared website hosting packages to different clients to gain profit. We, at My Dragonweb Hosting, offer cost-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server package of ours, which allows you to constitute your own web hosting company and gain money in no time since the web hosting business is perpetually expanding.