How Does Dedicated Hosting Function?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate numerous customers and thus the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to do everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a resource-devouring web page, or simply has very exact server configuration requirements, the smartest choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a concern. You are granted root access and can utilize 100% of the physical server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting distributors, including us at HostMyShop, provide different hardware configurations you can select from depending on your necessities. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful graphical user interface if you wish to use the dedicated server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH connection only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you wish to grant root access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP user interface that we provide does not offer root-level access and is mostly suitable for somebody who has many online portals that demand lots of system resources, but would like to administer the sites, databases and electronic mail addresses through an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root-level access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting web 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 hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at HostMyShop 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 hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on two server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access deletes something accidentally.