Dedicated Hosting Servers Explanation

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three main types - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host many clients and hence the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the option to perform everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your firm has a resource-consuming website, or just has very explicit server configuration requirements, the smartest choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a concern. You get full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and meddling with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting companies, incl. us at OG Web Wiz, offer several hardware architectures you can choose from in keeping with your necessities. The configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is convenient software if you would like to use the dedicated web server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH client only. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you choose to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer full server root privileges and is chiefly suitable for someone who has lots of online portals that require plenty of system resources, but desires to administer the web portals, databases and mailbox accounts using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

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 the event of a predicament with your web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at OG Web Wiz 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 as well. Backups are also an extra 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 save the same data on two hard drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access deletes something by mistake.