What Does Dedicated Hosting Signify?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main varieties - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate numerous customers and therefore the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS packages give you more server configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the chance to do everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a high-traffic website, or just has very specific server setup requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not a problem. You are granted full server root privileges and can utilize 100% of the server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting suppliers, including us at ZanyHosting.com, provide different hardware architectures you can select from on the basis of your demands. The hardware configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a hosting CP, which is a useful software tool if you want to use the web server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not offer full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who owns many web sites that devour a lot of system resources, but wishes to administer the web portals, databases and mail aliases via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at ZanyHosting.com the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting vendor 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 server hard drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges deletes something accidentally.