How Do Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Function?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three major categories - website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared web servers host many clients and therefore the resources per account are restricted, VPS web hosting offer more configuration freedom, but also affect other VPS web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated web hosting servers offer you the liberty to perform everything you prefer without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting servers?

Dedicated web hosting servers are generally much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a intense-traffic web site, or just has very special server architecture requirements, the right option is a dedicated web hosting servers. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You gain full server root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

Most hosting distributors, including us at Lair Secure Net, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from according to your needs. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is convenient software if you want to utilize the dedicated web hosting servers for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated web hosting servers through an SSH console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you choose to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not include root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who runs multiple web sites that swallow plenty of system resources, but wishes to administer the web portals, databases and electronic mails via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root-level access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated web hosting servers just 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 web hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Lair Secure Net the system administrators monitor all dedicated web hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access deletes something by accident.