What Exactly are Dedicated Web Hosting Servers?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 main varieties - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate plenty of clients and so the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to perform everything you like without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a large-scale website, or simply has very special server setup requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You are given root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware configurations

The majority of shared web hosting distributors, incl. us at Palm Servers, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from in accordance with your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful tool if you wish to use the dedicated web server for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH console only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software installed is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel GUI that we offer does not include full server root privileges and is chiefly appropriate for someone who has plenty of websites that require a lot of system resources, but desires to manage the sites, databases and email mailbox accounts through a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated 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 server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Palm Servers 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 as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root privileges deletes something accidentally.