Dedicated Web Hosting Unmasked

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three principal types - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate lots of customers and hence the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you see fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your firm has a resource-requiring site, or just has very special server architecture requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You receive root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting corporations, incl. us at uGottaHost.com, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from depending on your demands. The configurations offer different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can select a hosting CP, which is a convenient graphical user interface if you would like to use the web server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH console only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant full server root access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software installed is a clever idea. The Hepsia Control Panel GUI that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs a lot of web pages that devour plenty of resources, but prefers to manage the web sites, databases and e-mail box accounts through an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full server root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated hosting web server only for yourself, you should select 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 problem with your dedicated server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at uGottaHost.com 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 too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access deletes something by accident.