How Does Dedicated Hosting Work?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers host many customers and hence the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server plans give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to perform everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is rather simple. If your corporation has a repeatedly visited web site, or just has very special web server setup requirements, the most logical choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not an issue. You are granted full server root privileges and can use 100% of the physical server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting service providers, including us at GlobalEzWebHosting.Com, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your requirements. The hardware configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy tool if you would like to utilize the web server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting web 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, especially if you decide to give full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software installed is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel GUI that we offer does not give you full server root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains many sites that absorb plenty of system resources, but wants to administer the sites, databases and email box accounts through an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages instead of using the dedicated server only 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 hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at GlobalEzWebHosting.Com the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on two hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access erases something by accident.