What Actually is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 main varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting servers host plenty of clients and hence the system resources per user account are restricted, VPS hosting give you more configuration autonomy, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the liberty to carry out everything you think fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a busy website, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the most appropriate option is a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is of no concern. You are granted full root access and can utilize 100% of the hosting web server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware specifications

Most website hosting vendors, incl. us at InTech Hosting, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers through an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting CP user interface that we offer does not offer complete root-level access and is chiefly suitable for someone who runs multiple online portals that consume a lot of system resources, but prefers to manage the web portals, databases and email accounts using an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at InTech Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access deletes something unintentionally.