What are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three principal varieties - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting web servers accommodate numerous clients and thus the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS hosting offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers give you the chance to carry out everything you desire without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are generally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-demanding website, or simply has very specific web server configuration requirements, the right option is a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is not a problem. You have complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

The majority of website hosting companies, incl. us at Hosting Europe, offer several different hardware configurations you can select from in line with your needs. The hardware configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a useful tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting via an SSH connection exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting CP GUI that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns many web sites that consume lots of resources, but prefers to manage the web portals, databases and email box accounts through a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers just 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 servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Hosting Europe the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something by mistake.