What Actually is Dedicated Web Hosting?
When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three basic kinds - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared servers host numerous customers and hence the resources per account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out everything you want without messing with anyone else.
Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?
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Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a resource-consuming online portal, or just has very precise server architecture requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is not an issue. You gain root privileges and can use 100% of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and interfering with your web pages.
Hardware specs
The majority of website hosting corporations, including us at Start Hosts, offer several hardware configurations you can choose from based on your needs. The configurations include different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a handy GUI if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The Control Panel of your choosing
If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell tunnel only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software installed is a fine idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel interface that we offer does not offer root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who owns lots of websites that absorb lots of system resources, but would rather administer the websites, databases and mail addresses via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root-level access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.
Web server monitoring and backup procedures
Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Start Hosts 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges erases something by mistake.