Dedicated Hosting Unmasked

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three main sorts - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers host multiple customers and so the resources per account are restricted, virtual private server plans offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to do everything you desire without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-swallowing site, or just has very precise web server configuration requirements, the most intelligent option would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is of no importance. You get root access and can use 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware configurations

Most web hosting corporations, including us at jacx Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from in consonance with your demands. The hardware architectures include different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient tool if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to give root access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who runs lots of websites that swallow a lot of resources, but prefers to manage the web sites, databases and e-mail addresses through a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root-level access and include 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the web server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

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 server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at jacx 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 extra option - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to have the very same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access erases something by accident.