How Dedicated Hosting Operates

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three principal types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host a lot of customers and thus the resources per account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to carry out everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your corporation has a resource-intensive online portal, or simply has very specific web server setup requirements, the most relevant choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is not an issue. You obtain complete root access and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware specifications

Most shared hosting firms, including us at St. Clare Web Hosting, provide several hardware configurations you can pick from according to your requirements. The configurations offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can pick a hosting Control Panel, which is convenient software if you wish to utilize the dedicated web server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software activated is a fine idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software that we offer does not offer complete root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains many online portals that consume a lot of system resources, but would rather manage the web pages, databases and electronic mail aliases through an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root privileges and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web 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 server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at St. Clare Web 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 option - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access deletes something accidentally.