What Exactly is Dedicated Hosting?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three principal sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate numerous customers and therefore the resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private servers give you more configuration independence, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to carry out everything you choose without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a high resource-requiring web page, or simply has very precise server architecture requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is of no concern. You are granted full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting distributors, including us at Cheap Web Hosting, offer several different hardware architectures you can pick from according to your demands. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers via an SSH console exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to give root access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer full root access and is mainly suitable for somebody who owns many web pages that consume a lot of system resources, but would like to manage the online portals, databases and email aliases through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just 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 servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Cheap Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something by accident.