Dedicated Web Hosting Definition

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories - web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared web servers accommodate a lot of clients and so the system resources per user account are limited, VPS web hosting give you more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the option to do everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a high resource-devouring web page, or just has very explicit web server setup requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the greater price is not an issue. You receive full server root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting vendors, including us at Hostddl.com, provide several hardware configurations you can choose from based on your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy user interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated web hosting via a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you wish to give full root-level access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a fine idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel user interface that we offer does not give you full server root privileges and is mostly appropriate for someone who has lots of web sites that swallow lots of resources, but prefers to manage the websites, databases and mail addresses using an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Hostddl.com 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 extra option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access deletes something by accident.