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When we talk about hosting servers, there are three principal types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting servers host plenty of customers and hence the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the chance to do everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

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Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your firm has a high-traffic web site, or just has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most intelligent choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are granted root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your web sites.

Hardware specs

Most shared web hosting suppliers, including us at DNA SuperHost, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from on the basis of your requirements. The hardware architectures include different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a handy tool if you want to use the dedicated server for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH terminal exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you want to give full server root privileges to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia hosting CP GUI that we provide does not include full root access and is mostly suitable for somebody who runs numerous websites that require plenty of system resources, but prefers to administer the web pages, databases and e-mailboxes via an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans rather than utilizing the web hosting server solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at DNA SuperHost 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root privileges deletes something accidentally.