Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories - shared website hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host many clients and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS accounts offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to do everything you choose without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your corporation has a large online portal, or simply has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You receive full server root privileges and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

The majority of hosting service providers, including us at Dermo Hosting, provide several different hardware configurations you can choose from in consonance with your requirements. The configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you want to utilize the server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you want to grant full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not give you root-level access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who maintains multiple websites that require a lot of resources, but prefers to manage the sites, databases and e-mailbox accounts using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

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, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Dermo 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges erases something accidentally.