What are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three major varieties - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate multiple customers and so the system resources per user account are limited, VPS hosting give you more server configuration liberty, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the opportunity to carry out everything you decide without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more expensive than shared hosting servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your corporation has a high-traffic website, or simply has very specific server architecture requirements, the most relevant choice is a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is of no concern. You obtain complete root-level access and can use 100% of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and intervening with your sites.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting distributors, including us at One Host Provider, provide different hardware configurations you can choose from in consonance with your requirements. The hardware configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a useful software tool if you want to use the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers via SSH exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you want to grant complete root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we offer does not give you full server root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who owns many sites that require plenty of resources, but prefers to administer the sites, databases and mail addresses via an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

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 web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at One Host Provider 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 an extra option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access erases something by mistake.