Dedicated Server Hosting Clarified

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three basic sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host multiple customers and hence the resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the independence to carry out everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are generally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a heavy resource-absorbing website, or simply has very specific web server setup requirements, the most reasonable option is a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You receive complete root access and can use 100% of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware specs

Most web hosting companies, incl. us at Host4Up Web Services, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from in keeping with your requirements. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy software tool if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers through an SSH console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to give complete root access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel user interface that we offer does not give you root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who runs multiple web pages that consume lots of system resources, but wishes to administer the websites, databases and mail addresses using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated hosting servers just 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Host4Up Web Services the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something accidentally.