What are Dedicated Servers?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main categories - shared hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate plenty of clients and therefore the resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to do everything you choose without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a busy website, or simply has very specific server setup requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not an issue. You obtain complete root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and intervening with your sites.

Hardware specs

Most shared hosting service providers, incl. us at SEOdominio, offer several hardware architectures you can select from as per your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy user interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting server for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to grant full server root access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel interface that we offer does not include root privileges and is mainly appropriate for someone who owns many web portals that devour a lot of resources, but would like to administer the sites, databases and email mailbox accounts via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting web server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at SEOdominio 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 server too. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting services provider 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 2 server disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root access deletes something by mistake.