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What Exactly is Dedicated Hosting?

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When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three major sorts - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate a lot of customers and hence the resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS accounts offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the independence to carry out everything you see fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a heavy-content web portal, or simply has very exact server configuration requirements, the wisest choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a concern. You have root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting service providers, incl. us at DaliHost, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from depending on your demands. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a convenient GUI if you want to utilize the web server for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via SSH only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software activated is a fine idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not include full server root privileges and is mostly appropriate for somebody who runs multiple web pages that demand a lot of resources, but wishes to administer the web portals, databases and email boxes via an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at DaliHost 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 server as well. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access erases something by accident.

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