Dedicated Servers Disclosed

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three basic varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate lots of customers and therefore the system resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server plans give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the freedom to do everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a high resource-demanding online portal, or just has very exact server architecture requirements, the right choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is of no concern. You are given root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of shared hosting companies, incl. us at Hospedary, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from in accordance with your demands. The hardware architectures offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a handy graphical user interface if you want to use the dedicated hosting server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH terminal only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software activated is a good idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software tool that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is mainly suitable for someone who maintains multiple web portals that consume lots of system resources, but would rather manage the sites, databases and e-mail boxes through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Hospedary 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 server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root-level access deletes something accidentally.