Dedicated Servers Web Hosting Unveiled

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three basic types - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated server web hosting. Shared web servers accommodate lots of clients and hence the system resources per user account are restricted, VPS web hosting give you more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated web hosting servers offer you the option to do everything you like without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting servers?

Dedicated web hosting servers are typically much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is rather simple. If your company has a resource-swallowing web site, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated web hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no importance. You obtain full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

The majority of website hosting firms, incl. us at Mydomains, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from in line with your demands. The configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful graphical user interface if you would like to use the dedicated web hosting servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated web hosting servers via a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you want to give root-level access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software tool that we provide does not include complete root access and is mainly suitable for someone who maintains plenty of online portals that require a lot of system resources, but desires to manage the online portals, databases and e-mail aliases via an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than using the dedicated web hosting servers solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Mydomains the system administrators monitor all dedicated web hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting distributor 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 2 server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access deletes something by mistake.