What Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Stand for?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 major types - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers host numerous customers and thus the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a heavy-traffic web portal, or just has very explicit web server setup requirements, the most logical choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not a concern. You get complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the physical server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting vendors, including us at Continental Network, offer different hardware architectures you can select from according to your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient software tool if you wish to use the dedicated web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH tunnel only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give complete server root access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include full server root privileges and is mainly suitable for someone who owns plenty of websites that demand plenty of resources, but would like to administer the websites, databases and electronic mail aliases using an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing 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 matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Continental Network the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access erases something accidentally.