What is Dedicated Servers Web Hosting?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three main kinds - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate multiple clients and thus the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to do everything you please without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your corporation has a data-heavy web portal, or simply has very specific server setup requirements, the most logical option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not a problem. You get full server root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of shared web hosting companies, incl. us at Dragon Web Hosting, provide different hardware configurations you can choose from according to your demands. The hardware configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different traffic allowances. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you wish to utilize the web hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell console for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH client exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software installed is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not offer complete server root access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who owns multiple web sites that demand plenty of resources, but wishes to administer the web pages, databases and electronic mail aliases using a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the web hosting server 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 web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Dragon Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated web hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access erases something accidentally.