What is Dedicated Web Hosting?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three basic types - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web servers host plenty of customers and so the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual private web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to carry out everything you see fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your firm has a resource-consuming online portal, or simply has very special server configuration requirements, the most relevant choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are given complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware specs

Most website hosting corporations, including us at REDESK US LLC, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you wish to use the web server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a good idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software that we provide does not offer root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who runs numerous web pages that require plenty of system resources, but desires to administer the web sites, databases and email mailboxes using an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of using the server 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 web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at REDESK US LLC 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting distributor 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 the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access deletes something by accident.