How Do Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Work?
When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main categories - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated server web hosting. Shared web hosting servers accommodate lots of clients and hence the system resources per hosting account are limited, VPS web hosting give you more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated web hosting servers offer you the option to do everything you please without interfering with anyone else.
Why would you require a dedicated web hosting servers?
Dedicated web hosting servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-devouring website, or simply has very exact web server architecture requirements, the right choice would be a dedicated web hosting servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the higher price is not an issue. You gain full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your websites.
Hardware specifications
Most web hosting companies, including us at cloudnode, offer different hardware configurations you can select from in accordance with your necessities. The configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a useful GUI if you want to use the dedicated web hosting servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The hosting Control Panel of your preference
If you are a self-assured Linux user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server web hosting through an SSH connection only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to give full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we offer does not offer complete root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns many web pages that consume plenty of system resources, but wishes to administer the online portals, databases and email mailboxes through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated web hosting servers solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.
Server monitoring and backup procedures
Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at cloudnode the system administrators monitor all dedicated web hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting servers as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access erases something by accident.