How Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Operate?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 major sorts - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate a lot of customers and hence the system resources per hosting account are limited, VPS hosting offer more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the liberty to perform everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a frequently visited online portal, or simply has very precise server setup requirements, the most appropriate choice is a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is of no importance. You get complete root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting service providers, including us at JCA Hosting, provide several hardware architectures you can pick from in line with your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can select a hosting CP, which is a handy software tool if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting through SSH exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you want to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software installed is a clever idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel GUI that we offer does not offer full server root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs numerous sites that swallow plenty of resources, but would like to administer the web sites, databases and e-mails using a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at JCA Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges erases something by mistake.