What Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Stand for?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three principal categories - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate numerous clients and therefore the resources per account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more configuration independence, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to carry out everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a frequently visited web page, or just has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the wisest choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You have root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting companies, including us at Hosting Hub, offer several hardware configurations you can choose from according to your demands. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you wish to use the web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell tunnel only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to give complete server root access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software tool that we provide does not include complete root-level access and is mostly suitable for someone who owns numerous web pages that absorb plenty of system resources, but prefers to manage the web portals, databases and mail addresses using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated web hosting server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Hosting Hub 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 hosting server as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access deletes something by mistake.