What Does Dedicated Web Hosting Mean?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 basic categories - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host many customers and so the system resources per account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to perform everything you decide without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your firm has a regularly visited website, or just has very exact server configuration requirements, the most relevant option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not a problem. You receive full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting firms, including us at DMS Technologies Hosting, provide several hardware configurations you can select from based on your demands. The hardware configurations include different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you would like to utilize the server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you choose to give root privileges to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP GUI that we provide does not give you full server root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who has a lot of websites that require lots of resources, but would rather manage the websites, databases and e-mail accounts using an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated hosting web server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at DMS Technologies 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 web hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two server hard disks as a precaution in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access deletes something by mistake.