How Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Function?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 major types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate many customers and hence the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration independence, but also affect other VPS servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to carry out everything you like without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-requiring site, or just has very precise web server setup requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You are granted complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting providers, incl. us at AgooCloud, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your necessities. The configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you want to use the hosting server for hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH console only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel interface that we offer does not give you root privileges and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs many sites that demand plenty of system resources, but would like to administer the sites, databases and electronic mail aliases via a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root privileges and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at AgooCloud the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access erases something accidentally.