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Dedicated Web Hosting Definition

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main categories - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared servers accommodate a lot of clients and so the system resources per hosting account are limited, VPS web hosting give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the chance to do everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

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Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a high resource-absorbing site, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the most reasonable choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the greater price is not a concern. You have full root access and can utilize 100% of the physical server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting distributors, incl. us at Malang Host, provide different hardware architectures you can select from according to your demands. The hardware configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a handy tool if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell console only. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you want to give access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who runs numerous web portals that demand a lot of system resources, but would rather manage the web pages, databases and mail aliases via a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Malang Host 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 as well. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 hard drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access deletes something by accident.