What are Dedicated Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 principal varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host lots of clients and thus the resources per account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration independence, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the option to perform everything you please without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a regularly visited web site, or just has very precise server configuration requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no concern. You acquire full root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared hosting suppliers, including us at World Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from as per your needs. The hardware architectures include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not offer full server root access and is mostly suitable for someone who maintains numerous web portals that consume plenty of system resources, but would rather administer the websites, databases and e-mailbox accounts using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should select 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 the event of a problem with your dedicated server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at World Hosting 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on two server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access erases something accidentally.