Dedicated Hosting Uncovered

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 major sorts - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host lots of clients and hence the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to do everything you prefer without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-requiring online portal, or simply has very exact server configuration requirements, the right option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a problem. You have full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

Most web hosting service providers, incl. us at The Georgia Web Warrior Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can choose from as per your requirements. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a useful graphical user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you want to grant access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP GUI that we provide does not offer root privileges and is mostly suitable for someone who has numerous sites that devour a lot of resources, but wishes to manage the web portals, databases and email mailbox accounts via an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at The Georgia Web Warrior Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated 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 save the same data on two hard drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root privileges erases something unintentionally.