Dedicated Servers Definition

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 basic sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate many customers and thus the resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS plans offer more configuration independence, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to carry out everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a data-heavy online portal, or just has very special web server setup requirements, the smartest option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You get complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting service providers, incl. us at Sedasoft Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can pick from in accordance with your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you wish to utilize the web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our web 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, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel GUI that we offer does not include root privileges and is mostly suitable for someone who runs a lot of web pages that consume plenty of system resources, but wishes to administer the web pages, databases and mailbox aliases using a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root privileges and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated web 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 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 desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Sedasoft Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on two hard drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access erases something by mistake.