Explanation of Dedicated Web Hosting

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three principal varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host a lot of clients and thus the resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to do everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a content-heavy website, or just has very special server setup requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is not an issue. You have full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and meddling with your web sites.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting distributors, including us at BuyWebHost.com, offer different hardware architectures you can select from according to your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you want to utilize the web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to give full server root access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not offer root-level access and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains many web pages that devour lots of resources, but prefers to manage the sites, databases and electronic mail addresses via an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at BuyWebHost.com the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access erases something accidentally.