How Dedicated Servers Hosting Works

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three principal varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host a lot of clients and therefore the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private servers offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you decide without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a intense-traffic website, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the best choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is of no importance. You are given full server root access and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting suppliers, including us at CosmoHost UK, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from on the basis of your necessities. The configurations offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through an SSH client only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you want to give complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel interface that we provide does not include full root privileges and is mainly appropriate for somebody who runs numerous web sites that devour lots of resources, but wants to administer the sites, databases and e-mail accounts using an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at CosmoHost UK 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 servers as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access deletes something unintentionally.