What Exactly is Dedicated Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are among the most popular website hosting products on the marketplace. They are splendid for small-size web portals that do not request a lot of resources and do not receive that many viewers, but for large sites with many 1000's of website visitors, a more powerful platform is needed. If you demand a solid, first-class hosting solution that can handle even millions of daily visits, a dedicated server is your most appropriate choice.

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

With the dedicated server hosting solution, you rent an entire web server whose system resources will be used only by your websites. Just as any PC, each dedicated server has one or more central processing units operating at a particular speed, a certain amount of memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration designed to cope with intense load and given software installed on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the web sites hosted on it to be accessible on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be administered either by the hosting supplier, or by the customer, on the basis of the specific dedicated server package. In either case, the side managing the dedicated server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any specific time. Management is done via a web hosting Control Panel graphical interface that allows you to supervise the tasks running on the dedicated hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various web hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, etc. Given web hosts provide dedicated servers using one given Operating System, while others give clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites request a Windows server, for example, and will not work on a different Operating System, while PHP and HTML driven sites using MySQL databases will run on any OS. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, check what the web hosting distributor offers and what the requirements of your site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software needed 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 obtain the web hosting server, you can upload your web site files and take the web site online. The majority of hosting corporations offer root privileges, i.e. you can activate any software platforms on the dedicated server and change any settings. Specific script-powered software platforms require server-side libraries that should be pre-installed in order for them to perform. Lots of shopping cart software scripts, for instance, impose such a requirement, and getting complete server root access to the dedicated server is crucial for building an online storefront. Other hosting companies do not give full root privileges, but help the client activate the needed software applications - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which includes root-level access.

Dedicated Server by 'Sex Friendly Hosting'

The content on the dedicated server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) console or through a hosting CP tool like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of Control Panel graphical interfaces available, and typically web hosting companies provide a few of them, and with complete root-level access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All website files, databases, e-mails, access logs and script installations are administered easily via a graphical user interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Specific web hosting Control Panels also comprise a reseller back office dashboard, so if you opt for a dedicated server, you can not merely host your website files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to different persons to make profit. We, at Sex Friendly Hosting, provide charge-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server package of ours, which permits you to build your very own web hosting company and earn revenue in no time because the hosting business is incessantly blossoming.