Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three basic sorts - shared hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host many customers and thus the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration freedom, but also influence other VPS web servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to carry out everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared hosting servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your company has a high-traffic web page, or simply has very special web server setup requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the higher price is of no importance. You receive root-level access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware configurations

Most shared hosting vendors, including us at GayWebSource.com Hosting - LGBT Gay Web Site Hosting Center, offer several hardware architectures you can select from as per your requirements. The configurations offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy user interface if you would like to use the dedicated server for web hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you wish to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software tool that we offer does not offer complete root-level access and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs plenty of web portals that swallow lots of system resources, but prefers to manage the online portals, databases and email aliases using an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than using the dedicated server solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at GayWebSource.com Hosting - LGBT Gay Web Site Hosting Center the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access erases something by mistake.