Dedicated Web Hosting Unveiled

Free and paid shared plans are among the most widely used website hosting products on the marketplace. They are excellent for small web portals that do not necessitate plenty of system resources and do not attract that many website visitors, but for busy sites with many 1000's of visitors, a more advanced platform is needed. If you require a dependable, first-class website hosting solution that can cope with even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated web hosting is your perfect choice.

Handle the Heavy Load Created by Your Sites with a Dedicated Web Hosting Server

With the dedicated web hosting solution, you rent an entire web hosting server whose system resources will be utilized only by your websites. Just as any PC, each dedicated web hosting server has one or more processing units operating at a given speed, a given amount of RAM, one or more disk drives, and so on. A dedicated server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration aimed to handle heavy load and specific software activated on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, etc., which allows the websites stored on it to be accessible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Web Hosting Solutions

A dedicated web hosting server can be managed either by the hosting provider, or by the client, based on the given dedicated web hosting package. In either situation, the party administering the physical server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any specific time. Management is done via a hosting Control Panel interface that allows you to keep track of the tasks running on the physical server.

OSs for Dedicated Web Hosting

There are different hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, various Linux distributions, and so on. Given hosting providers provide dedicated web hosting using one specific Operating System, while others offer customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites require a Windows web server, for example, and will not run on another OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites utilizing MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated web hosting server, check what the provider provides and what the necessities of your web site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated web hosting server comes with all the software needed in order to manage a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so the moment you get the dedicated web server, you can upload your website files and take the site online. The majority of hosting corporations give complete server root access, i.e. you can activate any software applications on the dedicated web hosting server and revise any settings. Some script-based software platforms need server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to run. Lots of e-commerce software scripts, for instance, involve such a precondition, and being supplied with root access to the dedicated web hosting server is key for administering an online store. Other web hosting corporations do not give full root privileges, but help the client activate the necessary software - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged hosting service, which comes with full root privileges.

Dedicated Web Hosting by 'A Plus Web'

The website files on the dedicated web hosting server can be managed either through a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or via a CP tool like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of web hosting CP interfaces in existence, and typically hosting service providers provide a couple of them, and with complete server root access at hand, the client can install any of them. All files, databases, e-mails, access logs and program installations are administered effortlessly through a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Some hosting CPs also comprise a reseller backend panel, so if you order a dedicated web hosting server, you can not simply host your web site files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to different clients to gain cash. We, at A Plus Web, offer free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated web hosting package of ours, which enables you to set up your very own web hosting corporation and make cash very quickly since the hosting market niche is incessantly flowering.