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How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function

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When we speak of hosting servers, there are three main sorts - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers host a lot of clients and thus the system resources per account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to perform everything you like without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a high resource-demanding web page, or simply has very precise server architecture requirements, the most sensible choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a concern. You gain root access and can use 100% of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of shared hosting distributors, incl. us at Arbohosting Inc., offer several hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your needs. The configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to utilize the hosting server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting CP graphical user interface that we provide does not give you root privileges and is mainly suitable for someone who runs lots of web sites that swallow lots of resources, but prefers to administer the online portals, databases and email addresses through a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than using the server just for yourself, you should choose 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 hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Arbohosting Inc. 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 feature - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access deletes something by accident.

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