Dedicated Servers Revealed

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three major varieties - hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host numerous clients and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to perform everything you choose without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your firm has a high resource-swallowing web page, or simply has very precise web server setup requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a concern. You acquire full root access and can use 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

The majority of web hosting firms, incl. us at Quiyada Website Services, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from according to your requirements. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a useful GUI if you would like to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you want to grant full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel interface that we provide does not include full server root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains plenty of websites that devour lots of system resources, but would like to administer the online portals, databases and email mailboxes via a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated servers 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 servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Quiyada Website Services the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges erases something unintentionally.