Dedicated Hosting Servers Unmasked

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three principal varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host numerous customers and so the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server plans offer more configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the chance to carry out everything you desire without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a frequently visited web page, or simply has very special server architecture requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You have full server root privileges and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting providers, incl. us at Hosting Europe, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from in consonance with your demands. The hardware architectures include different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a convenient graphical user interface if you wish to utilize the server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel interface that we provide does not give you full server root access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who has a lot of web pages that consume lots of resources, but wishes to manage the sites, databases and email boxes using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete server root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Hosting Europe 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 hosting server too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access erases something unintentionally.