Dedicated Hosting Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 principal kinds - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers host plenty of clients and so the resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server plans offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to do everything you desire without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a resource-absorbing web site, or just has very special web server architecture requirements, the smartest choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is not a concern. You are granted full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting firms, incl. us at wd3web, offer several hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your requirements. The configurations offer different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH console only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give full root access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer full root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who owns lots of websites that consume lots of system resources, but would like to manage the online portals, databases and email addresses via an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root privileges and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of using the web server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at wd3web 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 hosting server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access erases something by mistake.