Dedicated Web Hosting Explanation

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major sorts - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared web hosting servers host plenty of clients and hence the system resources per account are limited, VPS web hosting offer more configuration independence, but also affect other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out everything you please without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a resource-demanding web page, or just has very specific web server configuration requirements, the most sensible choice would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is of no concern. You gain root privileges and can utilize 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

Most web hosting corporations, including us at Octacore Networks, provide several hardware architectures you can choose from as per your demands. The hardware configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you would like to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated web hosting through a Secure Shell connection only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to give complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel user interface that we offer does not offer full server root access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who owns multiple web pages that consume lots of resources, but desires to manage the websites, databases and mails via an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root-level access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Octacore Networks 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 servers as well. Backups are also an additional 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 have the same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access deletes something by accident.