What In Fact are Dedicated Web Hosting Servers?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories - website hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting web servers host a lot of clients and therefore the resources per account are restricted, VPS web hosting offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated web hosting servers give you the possibility to perform everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting servers?

Dedicated web hosting servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your company has a high resource-absorbing online portal, or simply has very exact web server setup requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated web hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You receive complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of website hosting corporations, including us at Cirrus Hub, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from as per your demands. The hardware architectures include different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is handy software if you wish to use the dedicated web hosting servers for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated web hosting through SSH exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel interface that we offer does not give you complete root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who has numerous sites that devour a lot of system resources, but would rather manage the online portals, databases and email boxes through an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated web hosting servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Cirrus Hub the system administrators monitor all dedicated web hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated web hosting servers as well. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two hard drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root-level access deletes something unintentionally.