What Does Dedicated Hosting Stand for?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three major varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate numerous clients and therefore the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private servers offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual private web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to do everything you decide without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your company has a data-heavy website, or simply has very exact web server configuration requirements, the most logical choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not a concern. You receive root privileges and can use 100% of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting providers, including us at SSDD Hosting, offer different hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your necessities. The hardware configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to grant full root privileges to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we offer does not include complete server root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who runs a lot of online portals that require a lot of system resources, but wants to manage the web sites, databases and electronic mail accounts using an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at SSDD Hosting 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 servers as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the very same data on 2 disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access deletes something by accident.