How Do Dedicated Servers Operate?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 principal types - shared website hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host many customers and so the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to do everything you see fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your corporation has a content-heavy web portal, or just has very exact server configuration requirements, the most logical choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are given root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting distributors, incl. us at Domain Host Pro, offer different hardware architectures you can select from based on your requirements. The hardware configurations include different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you want to utilize the web server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you want to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting CP tool that we provide does not include complete server root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who runs plenty of sites that absorb lots of system resources, but wants to administer the sites, databases and email box accounts through a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the hosting server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Domain Host Pro 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something by accident.