What is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate a lot of customers and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server plans give you more configuration independence, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to do everything you choose without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a high resource-requiring site, or just has very explicit web server setup requirements, the most sensible choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You are given full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your websites.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting suppliers, including us at Cheap Web Hosting, offer several different hardware architectures you can choose from based on your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you would like to utilize the web server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you want to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel GUI that we provide does not include full root privileges and is mainly suitable for someone who maintains lots of web portals that require a lot of resources, but desires to manage the websites, databases and e-mailboxes using a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of using the dedicated server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. 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 individual services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 disk drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given access deletes something accidentally.