How Does Dedicated Web Hosting Function?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories - website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting web servers accommodate plenty of customers and therefore the resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS web hosting offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated web hosting servers give you the independence to perform everything you please without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting servers?

Dedicated web hosting servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your firm has a popular website, or simply has very precise server configuration requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated web hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not a concern. You obtain root access and can utilize 100% of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and interfering with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

Most website hosting service providers, incl. us at A Plus Web, provide several hardware configurations you can choose from depending on your demands. The hardware architectures include different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a useful tool if you want to use the dedicated web hosting servers for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated web hosting servers via SSH only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software that we offer does not include full root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who owns plenty of sites that swallow lots of system resources, but would like to administer the web sites, databases and mailboxes using a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at A Plus Web the system administrators monitor all dedicated web hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting servers as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges erases something accidentally.