Dedicated Servers Explanation

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major sorts - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate numerous customers and so the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to do everything you wish without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a resource-intensive web site, or simply has very special server setup requirements, the most appropriate choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is of no importance. You gain complete root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else using these resources and messing with your sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of web hosting corporations, including us at Connektiva Web Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from as per your demands. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different traffic quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you want to utilize the web server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH terminal exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP user interface that we offer does not offer full server root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains lots of web sites that absorb lots of system resources, but desires to administer the web portals, databases and electronic mail addresses via an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root privileges and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the server 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 server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Connektiva Web 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 server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on 2 hard drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access erases something by accident.