Dedicated Server Web Hosting Unmasked

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main kinds - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host lots of clients and thus the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to do everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a high resource-consuming web site, or just has very specific server configuration requirements, the most logical option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no importance. You obtain complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared web hosting service providers, including us at Republik Murah, provide several hardware configurations you can choose from based on your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and disk drive sizes and different traffic quotas. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is useful software if you would like to utilize the dedicated web server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH connection exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to give full server root access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software tool that we offer does not include full root privileges and is mainly suitable for someone who runs lots of web sites that swallow lots of system resources, but wishes to administer the web portals, databases and mails through an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Republik Murah the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access deletes something by mistake.