What is Dedicated Web Hosting?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 major varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate a lot of customers and therefore the system resources per account are restricted, virtual private server plans give you more server configuration freedom, but also affect other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your firm has a popular web site, or just has very precise web server setup requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a problem. You obtain complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting suppliers, incl. us at Best Paid Hosting, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your necessities. The configurations include different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant full server root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software tool that we provide does not include full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who has multiple online portals that absorb a lot of resources, but prefers to administer the sites, databases and email box accounts via an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Best Paid Hosting 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 server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on 2 server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access erases something by mistake.