Dedicated Web Hosting Defined

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three main sorts - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate multiple clients and therefore the resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to do everything you wish without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your firm has a busy online portal, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is of no concern. You are given full server root access and can use 100 percent of the physical server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of website hosting suppliers, incl. us at Wizardwords.com WizardwordsGo, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from in accordance with your demands. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a useful interface if you want to use the dedicated hosting server for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting CP user interface that we provide does not give you complete root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who owns multiple online portals that demand a lot of resources, but prefers to administer the web portals, databases and mail addresses through a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated web hosting server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Wizardwords.com WizardwordsGo 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on two disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges erases something accidentally.