What Precisely is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 major varieties - shared web hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers host a lot of customers and therefore the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts give you more configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to perform everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a resource-devouring online portal, or just has very explicit server architecture requirements, the most relevant choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not an issue. You obtain full server root access and can utilize 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting firms, incl. us at Melanesia Web Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from in accordance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can select a hosting CP, which is a convenient user interface if you wish to use the dedicated web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through SSH exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant full root access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not give you root access and is mostly suitable for someone who runs multiple websites that devour a lot of system resources, but prefers to administer the online portals, databases and mailbox accounts via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting server solely 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 predicament with your web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. 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 separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on 2 hard drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access deletes something by mistake.