What Exactly is Dedicated Web Hosting?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three basic kinds - web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared web hosting servers accommodate multiple customers and hence the system resources per user account are limited, VPS web hosting offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to carry out everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a repeatedly visited web portal, or just has very specific web server architecture requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a problem. You receive complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting providers, including us at Best Paid Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can pick from according to your needs. The hardware architectures offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting CP, which is convenient software if you would like to use the dedicated servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated web hosting via an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to give root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not offer full root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns a lot of websites that consume a lot of resources, but would like to manage the web sites, databases and email addresses via a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete server root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of using the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Best Paid 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 servers too. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access erases something by mistake.