Description of Dedicated Services

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 major categories - shared hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host numerous customers and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS plans offer more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the independence to perform everything you decide without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-demanding web page, or just has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most logical choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You acquire full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting service providers, incl. us at Sex Friendly Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from in consonance with your requirements. The configurations offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different traffic quotas. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you would like to use the server for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you choose to grant access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel tool that we offer does not give you full server root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who maintains numerous sites that consume a lot of system resources, but would like to administer the websites, databases and mails via an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated web hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web 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 server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Sex Friendly Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access deletes something accidentally.