Dedicated Server Web Hosting Explained

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 main categories - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate multiple customers and so the resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts give you more server configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to carry out everything you see fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a resource-consuming web site, or simply has very specific web server setup requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a concern. You are bestowed with root privileges and can use 100 percent of the web server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared web hosting service providers, including us at ARCANET, offer several different hardware configurations you can pick from in keeping with your needs. The hardware architectures include different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you wish to use the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to 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 Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via SSH exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel tool that we offer does not offer full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who has plenty of online portals that consume lots of system resources, but desires to manage the sites, databases and email box accounts using an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of using the hosting server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at ARCANET 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 web hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access deletes something by mistake.