How Dedicated Hosting Functions

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 principal varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate lots of customers and hence the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to carry out everything you wish without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a resource-swallowing web site, or just has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the best option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is not an issue. You gain root privileges and can use 100 percent of the physical server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting corporations, including us at Melanesia Web Hosting, provide several hardware architectures you can choose from in keeping with your needs. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a convenient software tool if you would like to use the dedicated web hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via SSH exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a fine idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we provide does not include complete server root access and is mostly suitable for somebody who runs many online portals that absorb plenty of system resources, but desires to administer the web sites, databases and e-mail aliases using a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Melanesia Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access deletes something by mistake.