What In Fact is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three main sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host many clients and thus the resources per user account are restricted, VPS packages offer more configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the option to do everything you see fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-devouring online portal, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a concern. You receive root-level access and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware specs

Most hosting companies, incl. us at CXF Host, provide different hardware architectures you can select from in accordance with your requirements. The hardware configurations include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different traffic allowances. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a convenient graphical user interface if you would like to use the dedicated server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to give full root access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we provide does not include root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who runs plenty of online portals that consume plenty of resources, but desires to administer the web pages, databases and electronic mail addresses through an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root-level access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of using the web server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at CXF Host the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on 2 server disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root privileges erases something by accident.