Dedicated Hosting Unmasked

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 principal kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web servers host lots of customers and therefore the resources per user account are restricted, VPS hosting offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the liberty to perform everything you want without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are normally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your corporation has a resource-absorbing web page, or simply has very specific server architecture requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are granted full root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware configurations

Most website hosting providers, incl. us at OWN HOSTS, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from depending on your requirements. The hardware architectures include different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers via an SSH terminal exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you want to give full server root access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel GUI that we provide does not give you full server root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who runs multiple online portals that swallow lots of system resources, but would rather administer the sites, databases and electronic mails using an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated hosting servers just 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at OWN HOSTS the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access erases something by accident.