What Does Dedicated Hosting Represent?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 major kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate a lot of customers and hence the resources per user account are restricted, VPS hosting give you more configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual private web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the option to carry out everything you desire without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your corporation has a repeatedly visited web site, or simply has very precise web server configuration requirements, the best option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the greater price is not an issue. You receive complete server root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting firms, including us at Raintree Hosting, offer several different hardware configurations you can pick from based on your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you wish to use the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting via a Secure Shell client only. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give full server root privileges to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia Control Panel tool that we offer does not give you complete root-level access and is mainly suitable for someone who maintains many web portals that devour plenty of system resources, but desires to administer the online portals, databases and e-mail addresses using an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting servers solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Raintree Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges erases something unintentionally.