Dedicated Servers Definition

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 basic sorts - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers host many clients and therefore the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration independence, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to do everything you like without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a high resource-devouring web page, or just has very precise web server setup requirements, the proper option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is not a problem. You receive full root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your sites.

Hardware specifications

Most shared hosting suppliers, incl. us at Required Marketing, offer different hardware configurations you can pick from in keeping with your demands. The configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a convenient software tool if you would like to utilize the server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through SSH exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we offer does not offer full server root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who maintains many web sites that absorb lots of system resources, but desires to manage the websites, databases and e-mail addresses using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Required Marketing the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two hard disks as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges erases something accidentally.