What In Fact are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main kinds - web hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting web servers host numerous customers and so the system resources per account are limited, VPS hosting offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the option to perform everything you see fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a high resource-swallowing website, or just has very special web server setup requirements, the most sensible choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are bestowed with full server root privileges and can use 100 percent of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting vendors, incl. us at 3 Worx Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can choose from in line with your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated hosting via a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you want to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP GUI that we offer does not offer root privileges and is chiefly suitable for somebody who runs lots of online portals that demand a lot of resources, but wishes to manage the web portals, databases and electronic mail accounts using a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root privileges and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of using the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good 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 option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on two server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges erases something unintentionally.