How Does Dedicated Servers Hosting Function?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three main categories - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host many customers and therefore the resources per user account are limited, virtual private servers give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the option to perform everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your corporation has a large web site, or just has very specific web server setup requirements, the most relevant option would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the higher price is of no concern. You acquire full root privileges and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

Most hosting companies, including us at DNA Tec Hosting, offer several hardware configurations you can choose from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is handy software if you want to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated hosting web 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 awkward, particularly if you wish to give complete root access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not include full root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains lots of online portals that consume a lot of resources, but would rather manage the web pages, databases and electronic mail accounts using a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at DNA Tec 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 servers too. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access erases something by mistake.