What Actually is Dedicated Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most commonly used website hosting solutions on the market. They are perfect for small-scale web sites that do not necessitate lots of resources and do not get that many viewers, but for heavy resource-consuming websites with many thousands of website visitors, a more powerful solution is needed. If you require a stable, top-quality shared hosting platform that can cope with even 1 000 000's of daily visits, a dedicated server is your perfect option.

Tackle the Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server hosting solution, you lease an entire physical server whose system resources will be used solely by your websites. Just as any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more microprocessors operating at a specific speed, some amount of RAM memory, one or more hard drives, etc. A web server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration intended to cope with high load and given software installed on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, etc., which permits the websites hosted on it to be accessible online.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting firm, or by the customer, based on the concrete dedicated server package. In either instance, the party administering the dedicated server has access to a software tool to restart it at any specific moment. Management is done via a hosting CP interface that allows you to monitor the tasks running on the web server.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are different web server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, various Linux distributions, and so on. Some providers offer dedicated servers using one particular OS, whereas others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites need a Windows web server, for instance, and will not perform on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites using MySQL databases will operate on any OS. Before renting a dedicated server, check what the web hosting supplier provides and what the needs of your website are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software required in order to run a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you get the server, you can upload your files and get the web site online. Most web hosting companies grant full server root privileges, in other words you can activate any software applications on the dedicated server and change any settings. Certain script-based software platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Plenty of e-commerce software scripts, for instance, impose such a requirement, and being granted complete server root access to the dedicated server is key for developing an online shop. Other web hosting vendors do not provide full root privileges, but help the customer activate the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which includes full server root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'St. Clare Web Hosting'

The textual, visual and aural content on the dedicated server can be handled either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or through a Control Panel graphical interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of Control Panel GUIs out there, and usually hosting corporations provide a couple of them, and with complete server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web files, databases, mail accounts, access logs and script installations are managed easily via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Given web hosting CPs also have a reseller backend panel, so if you have a dedicated server, you can not merely host your web files, but also offer shared web hosting packages to different individuals to earn cash. We, at St. Clare Web Hosting, offer cost-free billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server package of ours, which allows you to constitute your own personal hosting firm and generate revenue very quickly because the hosting market niche is constantly developing.