What Do Dedicated Servers Stand for?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three major categories - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate lots of clients and thus the system resources per account are restricted, virtual private servers offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the freedom to carry out everything you like without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your company has a heavy-content website, or just has very precise web server configuration requirements, the most sensible option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is of no concern. You acquire full server root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware specs

Most website hosting providers, including us at GlobalNet WebHosting - Hepsia Control Panel, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from as per your needs. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a useful interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you choose to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP tool that we offer does not include root privileges and is mostly appropriate for someone who has many web portals that devour a lot of resources, but desires to administer the online portals, databases and e-mail boxes using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at GlobalNet WebHosting - Hepsia Control Panel the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access deletes something by mistake.