How Dedicated Servers Function

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three main varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host lots of customers and hence the system resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server plans give you more configuration independence, but also affect other VPS servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to perform everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is very simple. If your company has a high resource-consuming online portal, or just has very exact web server setup requirements, the most appropriate choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not a concern. You are given full server root access and can use 100% of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting distributors, incl. us at GlobalNet WebHosting - Hepsia Control Panel, offer several hardware configurations you can select from as per your requirements. The configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different traffic quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you want to use the dedicated server for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH connection exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP tool that we provide does not include complete root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns numerous web sites that absorb a lot of system resources, but would rather administer the web sites, databases and email boxes through an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root privileges and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than using the hosting server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

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 dedicated web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at GlobalNet WebHosting - Hepsia Control Panel 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 services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges erases something by mistake.