Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three principal kinds - shared web hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host plenty of clients and so the system resources per account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the option to carry out everything you like without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your corporation has a heavy-content web portal, or just has very special server configuration requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is not an issue. You are given complete root-level access and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting distributors, including us at Sky Dragon Hosting, offer several hardware architectures you can pick from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you would like to utilize the server for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel only. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not give you root-level access and is mostly suitable for somebody who runs lots of sites that swallow lots of system resources, but would like to administer the web pages, databases and mailbox aliases via an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of using the web server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

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 hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Sky Dragon Hosting 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 server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access deletes something by mistake.