What Does Dedicated Hosting Signify?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three principal sorts - shared hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host numerous clients and hence the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more configuration independence, but also influence other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to do everything you decide without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your corporation has a frequently visited web page, or simply has very specific web server configuration requirements, the right choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not an issue. You are granted full root privileges and can use 100% of the web server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and meddling with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting vendors, incl. us at Shosho Mobile, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from in consonance with your requirements. The hardware configurations include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy software tool if you wish to use the hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the changes 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 self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell client only. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a fine idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we offer does not offer full root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who has plenty of sites that demand plenty of system resources, but would like to administer the sites, databases and email mailboxes using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Shosho Mobile the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something by accident.