How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 basic types - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate many clients and hence the system resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the liberty to do everything you see fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a popular website, or simply has very specific web server architecture requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the greater price is not an issue. You acquire full server root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting suppliers, including us at NS123.EU, provide several different hardware architectures you can choose from according to your requirements. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via SSH exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you want to give root privileges to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we offer does not give you full root privileges and is mainly appropriate for somebody who runs a lot of web sites that absorb a lot of system resources, but desires to administer the sites, databases and e-mail box accounts through an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the web hosting server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at NS123.EU 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 too. Backups are also a bonus feature - 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 server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges erases something accidentally.