Dedicated Hosting Explained

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 main sorts - hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate multiple customers and thus the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to carry out everything you wish without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your firm has a resource-demanding website, or simply has very exact web server architecture requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You receive full root privileges and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting companies, including us at Global Pro Hosting, offer several hardware configurations you can pick from based on your needs. The configurations include different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can pick a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell console only. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to grant access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia Control Panel user interface that we provide does not give you full root-level access and is mainly suitable for someone who has many online portals that demand a lot of system resources, but wants to manage the web pages, databases and e-mailboxes via an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Global Pro Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access erases something by mistake.