Dedicated Hosting Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three basic types - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers accommodate numerous clients and therefore the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to carry out everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a resource-demanding site, or simply has very exact server setup requirements, the wisest choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not a concern. You acquire root-level access and can use 100 percent of the hosting web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and meddling with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting distributors, incl. us at Ecommerce Hosting Solutions, provide several hardware architectures you can select from in keeping with your needs. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you choose to give full server root access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not give you full server root access and is mostly suitable for someone who owns numerous web sites that swallow a lot of resources, but prefers to manage the websites, databases and mail accounts through an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than using the server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Ecommerce Hosting Solutions the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something by mistake.