Dedicated Servers Description

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 main kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host a lot of customers and thus the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private servers offer more configuration independence, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to carry out everything you prefer without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your company has a heavy resource-swallowing web site, or simply has very special web server configuration requirements, the proper choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the higher price is not a concern. You are bestowed with root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting vendors, including us at lodifyhosting, provide several hardware architectures you can choose from as per your needs. The configurations include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy tool if you wish to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell client exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to grant complete server root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software tool that we offer does not give you full root privileges and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns many sites that devour lots of system resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and email aliases via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root privileges and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at lodifyhosting 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 a bonus option - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges erases something accidentally.