What Exactly are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 basic varieties - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web hosting servers host a lot of customers and hence the system resources per account are restricted, VPS hosting offer more configuration freedom, but also influence other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the chance to do everything you decide without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your firm has a resource-consuming website, or simply has very precise server architecture requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is of no importance. You have root access and can utilize 100% of the server's system resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting firms, incl. us at iNet Australia, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from depending on your needs. The hardware architectures include different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a convenient software tool if you wish to use the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers via a Secure Shell client exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to grant complete server root access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not include full root privileges and is mainly suitable for somebody who owns a lot of websites that absorb plenty of resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and e-mail addresses through a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the dedicated hosting servers only 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at iNet Australia the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access deletes something accidentally.