Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three principal varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate plenty of customers and thus the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration freedom, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to carry out everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your firm has a repeatedly visited web site, or just has very precise web server configuration requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the greater price is of no concern. You are given complete server root access and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

Most shared hosting corporations, including us at Consultingforge SL, offer different hardware architectures you can select from in keeping with your necessities. The hardware configurations include different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is handy software if you want to use the web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software tool that we provide does not give you complete root-level access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who maintains many sites that devour a lot of resources, but wants to manage the web sites, databases and email box accounts via a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the 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 dedicated hosting web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Consultingforge SL 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 server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access deletes something by accident.