How Dedicated Servers Web Hosting Operates

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 basic types - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate plenty of clients and hence the resources per account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more configuration autonomy, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to perform everything you prefer without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is very simple. If your company has a popular web portal, or just has very precise server configuration requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the greater price is not a problem. You gain complete root access and can use 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

Most shared web hosting suppliers, incl. us at Fireband Cloud, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from in accordance with your needs. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting CP, which is a handy graphical user interface if you want to use the dedicated hosting server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not give you root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who owns a lot of websites that require a lot of resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and e-mails via an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

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 hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Fireband Cloud 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 too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on two disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access deletes something accidentally.