Dedicated Servers Unmasked

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 main sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host plenty of clients and therefore the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private servers give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the chance to perform everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual private web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-swallowing online portal, or just has very special web server architecture requirements, the right option is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You receive root access and can use 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting vendors, including us at Arca Hosting, provide several hardware architectures you can choose from in keeping with your requirements. The configurations offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a handy interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for hosting purposes only and choose not to use SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant complete server root access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software tool that we offer does not give you full server root access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who runs plenty of web portals that demand a lot of system resources, but desires to administer the web portals, databases and mail accounts through an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should select 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 the event of a problem with your hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Arca 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 an extra option - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on 2 hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something accidentally.