Dedicated Hosting Description
When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three major varieties - shared website hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate a lot of clients and therefore the system resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to do everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.
Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?
16 GB DDR4 ECC REG RAM
2x240 GB nvme Hard Drives
32 GB DDR4 ECC REG RAM
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Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your firm has a high resource-devouring web site, or just has very specific server architecture requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no importance. You are given complete server root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your sites.
Hardware specifications
Most web hosting suppliers, incl. us at JCA Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can pick from as per your needs. The hardware configurations include different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you want to use the web server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.
The hosting Control Panel of your choosing
If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant full server root privileges to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not include full server root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who has many web sites that require plenty of resources, but would rather administer the websites, databases and e-mails via an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of using the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.
Server monitoring and backup services
Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at JCA Hosting 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 hosting server too. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root-level access deletes something accidentally.