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What Does Dedicated Hosting Mean?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three major types - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate plenty of clients and hence the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to perform everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a heavy-traffic web page, or simply has very explicit web server setup requirements, the proper choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not a problem. You are granted full server root privileges and can utilize 100% of the hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

Most shared hosting suppliers, including us at Prime Host, provide several hardware architectures you can select from as per your necessities. The configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient software tool if you would like to use the dedicated server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal only. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you want to give full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting CP tool that we offer does not offer root access and is mostly suitable for someone who runs lots of web pages that absorb a lot of system resources, but wants to administer the sites, databases and email accounts using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated web hosting server solely 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 server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Prime Host the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root-level access deletes something unintentionally.