What Precisely are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 principal categories - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate multiple customers and so the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to carry out everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a resource-consuming online portal, or just has very specific server setup requirements, the most appropriate choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You gain complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

Most web hosting vendors, incl. us at 3 Worx Hosting, offer different hardware architectures you can choose from in line with your demands. The hardware configurations offer different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you would like to use the server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH client only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you want to give full root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not give you root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who owns lots of web portals that absorb a lot of system resources, but desires to administer the online portals, databases and mail aliases using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting web server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at 3 Worx Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access deletes something by mistake.