Explanation of Dedicated Hosting Packages

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 major sorts - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting web servers accommodate plenty of clients and thus the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS hosting offer more server configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the option to carry out everything you please without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are typically much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a large website, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not a problem. You gain full server root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting firms, including us at HostingSuperCenter.com, offer different hardware configurations you can choose from in consonance with your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a convenient tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting via a Secure Shell connection only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to grant full root-level access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who has plenty of sites that swallow a lot of system resources, but wants to manage the sites, databases and email mailboxes using an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

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 dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at HostingSuperCenter.com the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two hard disks as a precaution in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges deletes something by accident.