How Dedicated Hosting Operates

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three major kinds - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host many customers and hence the system resources per account are limited, VPS give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the option to carry out everything you please without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a repeatedly visited web page, or just has very explicit server configuration requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You gain root privileges and can use 100% of the physical machine's resources without anyone else using these resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

Most website hosting companies, including us at Sex Friendly Hosting, offer several hardware configurations you can select from in accordance with your needs. The configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via an SSH terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give full root-level access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia Control Panel interface that we provide does not offer complete server root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who runs plenty of sites that swallow plenty of resources, but would rather administer the sites, databases and e-mail addresses using a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Sex Friendly 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 servers as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given access deletes something by accident.