What Do Dedicated Servers Denote?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three major varieties - shared hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host multiple clients and so the system resources per user account are limited, VPS accounts offer more server configuration independence, but also influence other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the possibility to carry out everything you decide without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a intense-traffic web site, or simply has very exact web server architecture requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no concern. You receive root privileges and can utilize 100% of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting vendors, including us at Just Value Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from according to your requirements. The configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is convenient software if you would like to use the dedicated server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via SSH only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you want to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software that we provide does not offer full server root privileges and is mostly appropriate for somebody who runs lots of websites that absorb plenty of resources, but prefers to administer the online portals, databases and e-mailboxes using an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the hosting server only 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 server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Just Value 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 server too. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on 2 hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges erases something by accident.