Dedicated Servers Unmasked

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 principal sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate a lot of clients and thus the system resources per account are restricted, VPS packages give you more configuration freedom, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to perform everything you decide without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is very simple. If your firm has a repeatedly visited site, or just has very exact web server setup requirements, the most intelligent choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not a concern. You receive complete root access and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and interfering with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

The majority of hosting suppliers, incl. us at eTesLa Technologies PC, offer several different hardware configurations you can select from in consonance with your demands. The hardware architectures include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a handy user interface if you wish to use the web server for 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 choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to give complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting CP GUI that we offer does not include complete root-level access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who runs plenty of online portals that consume lots of resources, but would like to manage the websites, databases and e-mails using a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the web hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at eTesLa Technologies PC 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 a bonus 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 server hard disks as a protective measure in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete server root access erases something by accident.