What Actually are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories — shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web hosting servers host plenty of customers and hence the resources per account are limited, VPS hosting offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other VPS servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you see fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-devouring online portal, or just has very special server architecture requirements, the most logical option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not a concern. You have full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting suppliers, including us at The Whole Internet, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your demands. The configurations offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can select a hosting CP, which is a handy user interface if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of hosting Control Panel software — Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated hosting via SSH only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software activated is a sound idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we offer does not offer complete server root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns many websites that absorb lots of resources, but desires to administer the web sites, databases and mail aliases via an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and include three levels of access — root, reseller, and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than using the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at The Whole Internet the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also an additional feature — the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access deletes something by accident.