Dedicated Hosting Services Explained

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three major varieties - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web servers host plenty of clients and so the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS hosting give you more configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the liberty to do everything you prefer without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a high resource-absorbing website, or just has very specific server architecture requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not a concern. You receive root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting suppliers, incl. us at wd3web, provide several different hardware configurations you can choose from in line with your necessities. The configurations offer different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to use the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting through a Secure Shell console only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you want to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting CP tool that we provide does not offer full root-level access and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs lots of web portals that consume plenty of resources, but prefers to manage the web pages, databases and email box accounts using an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers 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 outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at wd3web the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access deletes something unintentionally.