Dedicated Web Hosting Clarified

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three main categories - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared web hosting servers accommodate multiple customers and therefore the system resources per hosting account are limited, VPS web hosting give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to carry out everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your firm has a high resource-requiring site, or simply has very specific web server setup requirements, the right option would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the greater price is of no concern. You gain full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the physical server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting firms, including us at HostGush, provide several hardware configurations you can pick from in line with your needs. The hardware configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via an SSH client exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to grant full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP tool that we offer does not include full server root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who has a lot of web portals that swallow a lot of resources, but desires to administer the online portals, databases and e-mail aliases via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated servers only 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 servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at HostGush the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access erases something unintentionally.