Explanation of Dedicated Servers

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three major categories - hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate plenty of clients and hence the resources per user account are limited, VPS give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the chance to perform everything you prefer without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-devouring web portal, or simply has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a problem. You obtain full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the physical server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting service providers, including us at the Consult, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from in accordance with your needs. The hardware architectures offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to give complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel tool that we offer does not include full root-level access and is mainly suitable for somebody who maintains multiple online portals that devour plenty of resources, but wishes to manage the web sites, databases and email mailbox accounts using an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers 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 servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at the Consult 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 servers too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access deletes something accidentally.