How Do Dedicated Servers Function?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three major types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate numerous customers and hence the system resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts give you more server configuration liberty, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to do everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a large-scale web page, or just has very special web server setup requirements, the most reasonable choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You obtain complete root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared hosting firms, including us at Sky Dragon Hosting, offer several hardware architectures you can pick from in accordance with your demands. The hardware architectures include different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you would like to utilize the hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured 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 terminal exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP user interface that we offer does not give you complete server root access and is mainly suitable for someone who has lots of web pages that devour plenty of resources, but would like to manage the web portals, databases and mails via an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Sky Dragon 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 server too. Backups are also an extra option - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on two hard drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access erases something unintentionally.