How Dedicated Hosting Functions

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 principal varieties - web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web hosting servers host multiple clients and hence the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated hosting servers give you the liberty to carry out everything you think fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your company has a data-heavy web site, or simply has very precise server architecture requirements, the most reasonable option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You receive full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting companies, incl. us at Connect IT Domain and Hosting, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from as per your demands. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy tool if you want to use the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting via a Secure Shell terminal only. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not offer complete root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who maintains numerous web sites that swallow plenty of system resources, but would like to administer the web pages, databases and mailbox aliases via an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

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, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Connect IT Domain and Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access erases something unintentionally.