What In Fact are Dedicated Servers?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three basic types - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host numerous customers and therefore the resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS plans give you more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you desire without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your company has a large-scale website, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the smartest option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a concern. You gain full server root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware configurations

Most hosting distributors, including us at SD-Internet-Service, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from according to your demands. The hardware architectures include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a handy GUI if you wish to use the server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH connection only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software that we provide does not include full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who runs lots of web portals that demand lots of resources, but prefers to administer the web sites, databases and e-mail boxes via an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at SD-Internet-Service 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 server as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root access erases something by accident.