What Precisely is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 main sorts - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate a lot of clients and so the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts give you more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to do everything you prefer without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a heavy resource-requiring website, or simply has very special server configuration requirements, the most suitable option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a concern. You are bestowed with full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting distributors, incl. us at Tech Bridge Services, provide different hardware architectures you can pick from on the basis of your demands. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to use the web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH client only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to give root access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software installed is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting CP user interface that we provide does not include root-level access and is mostly appropriate for someone who has lots of sites that consume a lot of resources, but would like to administer the online portals, databases and e-mail box accounts using an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick 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 downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Tech Bridge Services 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 services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges deletes something accidentally.