What Precisely is Dedicated Hosting?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three major varieties - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host multiple clients and thus the resources per user account are limited, VPS packages give you more configuration independence, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a resource-requiring site, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the most intelligent choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not a problem. You have complete root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware specs

Most hosting companies, including us at Netary, offer several hardware configurations you can select from in accordance with your needs. The hardware architectures include different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy graphical user interface if you want to use the web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to grant root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software that we provide does not include complete root access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who runs plenty of web portals that demand a lot of resources, but prefers to administer the sites, databases and e-mailboxes via a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated server just 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 server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Netary the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root privileges erases something unintentionally.