How Does Dedicated Web Hosting Function?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three principal categories - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared servers host many customers and so the system resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to carry out everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a data-heavy web page, or simply has very special server setup requirements, the most relevant option is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a problem. You are given complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting service providers, incl. us at Melanesia Web Hosting, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your requirements. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is handy software if you want to use the web server for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH client exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give root access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is a smart 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 somebody who runs lots of websites that consume plenty of system resources, but would like to manage the websites, databases and e-mail box accounts 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 offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Melanesia Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access deletes something unintentionally.