What are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate lots of clients and therefore the system resources per user account are limited, VPS hosting offer more configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers give you the opportunity to perform everything you want without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a heavy resource-requiring web portal, or simply has very explicit server architecture requirements, the most relevant option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not an issue. You are granted root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and interfering with your sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting corporations, incl. us at Online In Seconds, offer different hardware architectures you can choose from as per your necessities. The configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a useful graphical user interface if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated hosting via a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you want to grant full root privileges to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel interface that we provide does not include complete root-level access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains lots of online portals that require plenty of system resources, but wishes to manage the sites, databases and mails using an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of using the dedicated hosting servers solely 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Online In Seconds the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access erases something accidentally.