What Actually are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 major categories - web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting servers host numerous customers and hence the system resources per hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers give you the chance to do everything you see fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-consuming web portal, or just has very exact web server setup requirements, the right option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is of no concern. You acquire root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting providers, incl. us at Lair Mail, provide different hardware architectures you can select from based on your demands. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can pick a hosting CP, which is handy software if you want to use the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting through an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we offer does not offer root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains plenty of web portals that absorb plenty of resources, but wants to administer the web sites, databases and mail aliases using an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should select 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 the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Lair Mail 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 additional feature - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on 2 server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access erases something by mistake.