How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 main categories - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting web servers accommodate multiple customers and therefore the system resources per user account are limited, VPS hosting give you more server configuration independence, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the independence to do everything you choose without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are generally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your company has a resource-absorbing site, or simply has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the best choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is not a problem. You gain complete root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting vendors, incl. us at 3 Worx Hosting, offer different hardware architectures you can select from based on your demands. The configurations include different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you wish to use the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated hosting via an SSH client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to give full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software that we offer does not include full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who owns a lot of web pages that devour lots of system resources, but desires to administer the web sites, databases and mail addresses via an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting servers solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at 3 Worx Hosting 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 additional feature - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges erases something by accident.