What Precisely is Dedicated Hosting?

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

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a high resource-requiring web portal, or just has very exact web server setup requirements, the most relevant choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You receive full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting distributors, incl. us at World Point Site Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can select from as per your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to use the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH console only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give full server root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not include full root privileges and is mostly appropriate for somebody who has a lot of sites that consume a lot of system resources, but desires to manage the web portals, databases and mail accounts using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of using the dedicated server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at World Point Site 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 hosting server too. Backups are also an extra 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 same data on two server hard drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access erases something unintentionally.