Dedicated Servers Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major categories - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host lots of clients and therefore the system resources per user account are restricted, virtual private servers offer more configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the option to do everything you think fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your firm has a high resource-absorbing web portal, or simply has very exact web server setup requirements, the most reasonable choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You acquire full server root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and meddling with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most web hosting suppliers, including us at Libertywebhost, offer several different hardware architectures you can choose from on the basis of your demands. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a useful user interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to give access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia Control Panel GUI that we provide does not give you full server root privileges and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns lots of online portals that consume lots of resources, but desires to manage the sites, databases and email mailbox accounts through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root privileges and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Libertywebhost 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 servers too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two hard disks as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root access deletes something accidentally.