How Do Dedicated Servers Operate?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 major kinds - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate plenty of customers and therefore the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to perform everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a popular online portal, or just has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a problem. You are given full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting firms, including us at Blue Domain Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your needs. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a convenient GUI if you want to utilize the server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to grant full server root privileges to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel tool that we provide does not offer root privileges and is chiefly suitable for somebody who has a lot of web sites that devour a lot of system resources, but wishes to manage the web portals, databases and electronic mail aliases via an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated hosting web server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Blue Domain 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access erases something by accident.