What Does Dedicated Hosting Mean?

Free and paid shared packages are one of the most famous website hosting products on the market. They are good for small web pages that do not demand plenty of system resources and do not attract that many web site visitors, but for high resource-swallowing online portals with many thousands of web site visitors, a more powerful solution is required. If you require a solid, first-class hosting platform that can deal with even millions of daily visits, a dedicated server is your most excellent option.

Tackle the Intense Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated service, you lease an entire hosting server whose system resources will be used solely by your websites. Just like any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processors functioning at a certain speed, a given amount of memory, one or more hard drives, and so on. A server is actually a computer with a hardware configuration intended to handle heavy load and specific software installed on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the web sites hosted on it to be available on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting supplier, or by the client, based on the particular dedicated server package. In either situation, the party handling the dedicated server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any particular moment. Management is done through a web hosting CP interface that allows you to monitor the tasks running on the web hosting server.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are different web server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Some hosting distributors offer dedicated servers running one particular Operating System, whereas others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows server, for example, and will not perform on a different OS, while PHP and HTML based web sites utilizing MySQL databases will perform on any OS. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, find out what the hosting distributor offers and what the needs of your website are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software apps needed in order to administer a website - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated hosting server, you can upload your web files and get the site online. The majority of web hosting suppliers give full root-level access, i.e. you can install any software on the dedicated server and update any settings. Specific script-based software platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-activated in order for them to perform. Many shopping cart software scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and being given complete server root access to the dedicated server is essential for making a web storefront. Other hosting companies do not grant complete root-level access, but help the client activate the required software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as compared to the unmanaged web hosting service, which includes root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'CXF Host'

The content on the dedicated server can be handled either through a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or through a CP tool such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of CP graphical user interfaces in existence, and normally hosting vendors offer a few of them, and with complete root-level access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All website files, databases, electronic mails, access logs and script installations are managed effortlessly through a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Some Control Panels also have a reseller back office console, so if you order a dedicated server, you can not only host your website files, but also sell shared web hosting plans to different persons to generate revenue. We, at CXF Host, provide cost-free billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which allows you to establish your very own personal hosting corporation and make money very quickly as the hosting market niche is incessantly blooming.