Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Definition
When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three principal categories - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host plenty of clients and thus the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual private web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out 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 virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a heavy resource-devouring web portal, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the most sensible choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is not a concern. You gain complete server root access and can utilize 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and intervening with your online portals.
Hardware configurations
The majority of shared web hosting distributors, incl. us at cloudnode, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from in consonance with your requirements. The hardware configurations include different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a handy software tool if you want to use the dedicated web server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The Control Panel of your choosing
If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell client exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you choose to give full root access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP GUI that we offer does not give you root privileges and is chiefly suitable for someone who owns multiple websites that swallow lots of resources, but desires to manage the websites, databases and e-mail boxes using a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the web hosting server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.
Web server monitoring and backup services
Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at cloudnode the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated web hosting server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two server hard disks as a protective measure in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access erases something by mistake.