What In Fact are Dedicated Servers?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three principal varieties - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate many clients and so the system resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS packages offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual private web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out everything you want without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your company has a resource-consuming website, or just has very precise web server configuration requirements, the wisest choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is of no importance. You acquire full root privileges and can use 100% of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

Most hosting suppliers, incl. us at SD-Internet-Service, offer several hardware architectures you can choose from depending on your needs. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you want to utilize the dedicated server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant full root-level access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software installed is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not offer full server root access and is mainly suitable for somebody who maintains multiple websites that devour lots of resources, but wants to administer the web pages, databases and mail addresses via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. 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 individual services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two server hard disks as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access deletes something by mistake.