How Does Dedicated Hosting Operate?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 basic kinds - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host multiple customers and so the system resources per account are restricted, VPS accounts give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the freedom to perform everything you desire without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated 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 reply is pretty simple. If your firm has a popular website, or simply has very exact web server configuration requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a problem. You are given complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your sites.

Hardware specifications

The majority of hosting distributors, including us at godadywebhost, provide several hardware configurations you can choose from in accordance with your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy tool if you would like to use the hosting server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use SSH for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH terminal exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software pre-installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia Control Panel user interface that we offer does not give you root-level access and is mainly suitable for somebody who has lots of web portals that demand a lot of system resources, but wants to manage the sites, databases and e-mail boxes using an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at godadywebhost the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on 2 hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access erases something by mistake.