What Indeed is Dedicated Servers Web Hosting?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host plenty of clients and so the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private server plans give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to perform everything you wish without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your company has a big online portal, or just has very precise web server setup requirements, the proper option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You acquire full root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware configurations

Most shared web hosting companies, incl. us at CyanHosts, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from as per your requirements. The hardware architectures include different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a handy graphical user interface if you want to utilize the dedicated web server for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant complete root access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software that we provide does not give you full root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who maintains lots of web sites that demand plenty of resources, but prefers to manage the web pages, databases and email mailbox accounts using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete server root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated hosting web server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server 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 sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at CyanHosts 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the 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 server root access erases something unintentionally.