How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three main kinds - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate multiple clients and thus the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other VPS web servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to carry out everything you choose without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a resource-swallowing web portal, or simply has very exact server setup requirements, the most relevant choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You receive complete root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware specs

Most shared hosting firms, including us at Clickffi Web Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from on the basis of your needs. The hardware architectures include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you want to use the dedicated web server for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell connection only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you choose to grant access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software installed is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include full root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs numerous web sites that swallow lots of resources, but would rather administer the online portals, databases and e-mail accounts using an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the web server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Clickffi Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on two server disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root-level access erases something accidentally.