What Precisely is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three principal varieties - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated packages. Shared hosting web servers host a lot of clients and therefore the resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS give you more configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to perform everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a heavy resource-demanding web site, or just has very precise web server setup requirements, the most relevant choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no concern. You have complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of web hosting distributors, including us at Hosting AM PM, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your demands. The configurations include different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a handy GUI if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated packages through an SSH client only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to grant complete root access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not give you full root-level access and is mainly suitable for somebody who has numerous web portals that absorb plenty of system resources, but prefers to manage the web sites, databases and e-mailbox accounts via a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root privileges and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Hosting AM PM the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on two hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges erases something by accident.