How Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Function

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three major categories - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate plenty of customers and thus the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to carry out everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a regularly visited online portal, or simply has very exact web server setup requirements, the most logical option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not a problem. You are given full root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of shared web hosting distributors, including us at Alula Hosting, offer several different hardware architectures you can choose from as per your requirements. The hardware architectures include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you wish to utilize the web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell tunnel only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you decide to grant complete server root access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include complete root access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who maintains multiple web portals that demand lots of system resources, but desires to administer the web portals, databases and mail aliases using an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages rather than using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Alula Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting server too. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root-level access deletes something by accident.