Description of Dedicated Hosting

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 major kinds - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers accommodate lots of clients and so the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more configuration autonomy, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the option to do everything you think fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your firm has a high resource-devouring web site, or simply has very precise server configuration requirements, the wisest choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not an issue. You obtain full server root access and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of web hosting corporations, incl. us at BlueCap, provide different hardware configurations you can select from based on your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you wish to use the dedicated web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software tool that we offer does not include full root access and is mainly suitable for somebody who owns a lot of web portals that devour a lot of resources, but would rather manage the online portals, databases and email box accounts through a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated web hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at BlueCap 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 too. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access erases something by accident.