How Dedicated Hosting Servers Work

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting servers accommodate lots of clients and so the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS hosting offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the freedom to do everything you decide without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your corporation has a regularly visited online portal, or just has very specific web server setup requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not an issue. You have full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting companies, including us at H2NWeb, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from based on your demands. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated hosting servers via an SSH connection only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to grant root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not offer root access and is mostly suitable for someone who maintains multiple web pages that devour a lot of resources, but would like to administer the online portals, databases and e-mail aliases using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting servers solely for yourself, you should choose 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 case of a problem with your web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at H2NWeb 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 too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two server hard drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root-level access erases something unintentionally.