Dedicated Web Hosting Revealed

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 principal categories - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate multiple customers and so the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to carry out everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a popular online portal, or simply has very specific web server architecture requirements, the most sensible choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not a concern. You gain full server root access and can use 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting providers, including us at MalangHost, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from as per your demands. The configurations offer different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful tool if you want to utilize the web server for hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell terminal only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you want to grant access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting CP GUI that we offer does not offer root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains a lot of websites that swallow plenty of resources, but desires to manage the web sites, databases and email aliases using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at MalangHost 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 web hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on two disk drives as a precaution in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access deletes something accidentally.