What are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major types - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host multiple customers and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you want without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a heavy resource-requiring web site, or just has very special server setup requirements, the most sensible option is a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is of no concern. You obtain complete root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting suppliers, including us at Internet Business Services, offer several hardware architectures you can choose from depending on your needs. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you want to use the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell console only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software installed is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not offer complete root access and is mostly suitable for somebody who has a lot of web sites that devour lots of system resources, but would like to manage the online portals, databases and mailboxes via an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated hosting servers solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web 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 hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Internet Business Services 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 too. 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 have the same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges deletes something by accident.