What In Fact are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

Free and paid shared packages are one of the most popular hosting products on the marketplace. They are OK for small sites that do not request plenty of resources and do not have that many visitors, but for resource-consuming websites with many 1000's of viewers, a more powerful solution is required. If you demand a robust, top-drawer web hosting platform that can handle even 1 000 000's of everyday hits, a dedicated hosting is your most suitable choice.

Tackle the High Load Created by Your Websites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated server web hosting service, you rent an entire web server whose resources will be used only by your sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more central processing units running at a certain speed, a specific amount of RAM, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A dedicated web hosting server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration aimed to handle heavy load and certain software installed on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the sites hosted on it to be accessible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be administered either by the web hosting service provider, or by the customer, depending on the particular dedicated hosting plan. In either instance, the party handling the dedicated machine has access to a software platform to reboot it at any specific time. Management is done via a hosting Control Panel graphical interface that permits you to monitor the processes running on the dedicated web server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Hosting

There are different web hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Certain web hosting service providers offer dedicated hosting running one particular OS, whereas others give clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites demand a Windows server, for instance, and will not operate on another Operating System, while PHP and HTML based websites utilizing MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Prior to leasing a dedicated hosting server, check what the hosting supplier provides and what the needs of your website are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software required in order to run a site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated web server, you can upload your web site files and get the site online. Most web hosting vendors give complete server root access, i.e. you can install any software apps on the dedicated hosting server and change any settings. Specific script-driven platforms require server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to function. Various shopping cart scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and being bestowed with complete root access to the dedicated hosting server is vital for making a web storefront. Other web hosting providers do not provide root access, but help the customer activate the needed software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as compared with the unmanaged hosting service, which includes complete server root access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Hosting Hub'

The web content on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either through a Secure Shell (SSH) console or through a web hosting CP graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of CP GUIs out there, and typically providers provide a few of them, and with complete root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web site files, databases, electronic mail addresses, access logs and program installations are administered easily via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Certain hosting CPs also include a reseller backend dashboard, so if you settle on a dedicated hosting server, you can not just host your website files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to different customers to gain revenue. We, at Hosting Hub, provide free-of-cost invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated hosting plan of ours, which permits you to set up your own hosting firm and earn revenue in no time as the hosting market is incessantly proliferating.