Dedicated Hosting Servers Uncovered

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 major varieties - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate plenty of customers and hence the system resources per user account are restricted, VPS hosting offer more server configuration liberty, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the liberty to do everything you prefer without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are typically much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a high resource-absorbing web page, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the most logical choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not an issue. You gain complete root access and can use 100% of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting providers, including us at Tropical Hosting, provide several different hardware configurations you can choose from in keeping with your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful interface if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you choose to give root-level access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia Control Panel interface that we offer does not include root access and is mainly suitable for somebody who owns plenty of web pages that swallow a lot of resources, but wishes to manage the web pages, databases and e-mail boxes via an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root-level access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than using the dedicated hosting servers just 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Tropical Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two server disk drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges deletes something by accident.