What Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Denote?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three basic types - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web servers host plenty of clients and thus the resources per account are limited, VPS hosting give you more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the option to perform everything you please without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a frequently visited web portal, or simply has very exact server architecture requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is not a problem. You have full root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting companies, including us at The X Net Systems, offer different hardware configurations you can select from in line with your necessities. The configurations offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated hosting servers via an SSH tunnel only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant complete server root access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software tool that we offer does not give you full server root privileges and is mostly suitable for someone who has plenty of online portals that consume a lot of system resources, but prefers to administer the online portals, databases and email boxes via an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at The X Net Systems the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access deletes something unintentionally.