Description of Dedicated Web Hosting

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 major categories - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting servers host many clients and therefore the resources per account are limited, VPS web hosting give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other VPS servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to do everything you wish without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a high-traffic site, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the most suitable choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is not a concern. You are given root privileges and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and interfering with your online portals.

Hardware configurations

Most website hosting vendors, incl. us at Blue Domain Hosting, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from according to your needs. The hardware configurations include different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a useful software tool if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not include full root access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who has a lot of web pages that require a lot of system resources, but would like to manage the sites, databases and e-mail addresses through an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Blue Domain Hosting 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 servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access erases something unintentionally.