How Dedicated Servers Operate

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 principal sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host lots of clients and therefore the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to carry out everything you choose without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your company has a high resource-requiring site, or simply has very precise web server configuration requirements, the right option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You gain complete server root access and can use 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared hosting corporations, incl. us at SynthientWeb, provide several hardware configurations you can select from based on your demands. The hardware configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can select a hosting CP, which is handy software if you would like to utilize the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell console only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you want to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a fine idea. The Hepsia Control Panel GUI that we offer does not offer complete root access and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains multiple web pages that swallow lots of resources, but desires to manage the web sites, databases and e-mails via an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of using the dedicated web hosting server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at SynthientWeb 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 feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on 2 server hard disks as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access erases something unintentionally.