How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three principal types - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate many clients and so the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to carry out everything you want without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a resource-demanding web page, or simply has very explicit server setup requirements, the most relevant choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not a problem. You receive root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting vendors, including us at Lair Mail, provide several hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your needs. The configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a useful interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via SSH only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not offer full root-level access and is mostly suitable for someone who runs many sites that require a lot of system resources, but wants to manage the sites, databases and mail addresses through a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of using the web server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Lair Mail the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access erases something accidentally.