Dedicated Hosting Definition

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three basic sorts - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web hosting servers accommodate a lot of customers and thus the system resources per user account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the freedom to carry out everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are normally much more expensive than shared servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a high resource-devouring online portal, or simply has very exact server configuration requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not a concern. You obtain complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your websites.

Hardware configurations

Most web hosting service providers, including us at BlueCap, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from as per your needs. The hardware configurations offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a useful interface if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated hosting through an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is a good idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel GUI that we provide does not give you full root-level access and is mostly appropriate for someone who maintains plenty of web portals that require a lot of resources, but would rather manage the web portals, databases and email boxes through an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than using the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at BlueCap the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access erases something unintentionally.