How Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Work?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major kinds - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate lots of customers and thus the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS hosting offer more configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you decide without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your firm has a repeatedly visited web site, or simply has very precise web server architecture requirements, the most logical option is a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You have complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting vendors, incl. us at OG Web Wiz, offer several different hardware architectures you can pick from in line with your requirements. The configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful interface if you want to use the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated hosting servers via an SSH console only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting CP user interface that we offer does not offer complete root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who has numerous web portals that swallow a lot of resources, but wants to manage the web sites, databases and mail aliases through an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at OG Web Wiz 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 extra feature - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root-level access deletes something unintentionally.