What Precisely are Dedicated Servers?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 main kinds - hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host many clients and thus the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS give you more configuration independence, but also influence other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to perform everything you prefer without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a high resource-requiring web portal, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the right choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is of no importance. You have root-level access and can use 100% of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting vendors, incl. us at Hostingportal.xyz, offer different hardware architectures you can choose from according to your requirements. The hardware architectures include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you want to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel interface that we provide does not offer full root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who has a lot of web pages that absorb lots of resources, but would like to manage the web pages, databases and mailbox accounts via a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Hostingportal.xyz the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access erases something by accident.