What Actually is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main kinds - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host many clients and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the chance to carry out everything you see fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your firm has a high resource-swallowing site, or just has very exact server architecture requirements, the proper choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a concern. You are bestowed with complete root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

The majority of website hosting vendors, including us at My Dragonweb Hosting, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your necessities. The configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different traffic quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a useful tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers via SSH only. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not include root privileges and is mainly suitable for someone who maintains lots of websites that require a lot of system resources, but would rather manage the web pages, databases and e-mailboxes through a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at My Dragonweb Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 hard drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete server root access erases something accidentally.