Definition of Dedicated Hosting

Free and paid shared packages are one of the most famous website hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are OK for small online portals that do not require plenty of system resources and do not attract that many web site visitors, but for high resource-requiring web sites with many 1000's of visitors, a more powerful platform is needed. If you want a steady, leading-edge web hosting platform that can handle even millions of daily hits, a dedicated hosting is your finest choice.

Handle the Heavy Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web hosting service, you rent a whole web server whose resources will be used solely by your websites. Just like any PC, each dedicated hosting server has one or more microprocessors functioning at a specific speed, a given amount of memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A dedicated server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration intended to tackle heavy load and certain software installed on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the websites stored on it to be reachable on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be administered either by the web hosting provider, or by the client, based on the concrete dedicated hosting plan. In either situation, the side administering the hosting server has access to a software tool to restart it at any particular moment. Management is done through a CP graphical user interface that allows you to check the processes running on the machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Hosting

There are different hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, an array of Linux distributions, and so on. Specific hosting vendors offer dedicated hosting using one given OS, while others offer clients an option. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows server, for instance, and will not function on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven websites utilizing MySQL databases will operate on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated hosting server, discover what the host offers and what the requirements of your website are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server offers all the software needed to manage a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated server, you can upload your web files and bring the website online. The majority of web hosting vendors provide full server root access, i.e. you can activate any software platforms on the dedicated hosting server and modify any settings. Certain script-driven software platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Plenty of shopping cart scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and being given full root-level access to the dedicated hosting server is essential for managing an online shop. Other web hosting vendors do not offer root privileges, but help the customer install the necessary software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which includes root access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'YasHost'

The website files on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or via a CP interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are tens of Control Panel tools in existence, and typically web hosting suppliers offer a few of them, and with complete root access at hand, the client can install any of them. All files, databases, email mailboxes, access logs and script installations are managed easily through a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Some hosting CPs also have a reseller backend tool, so if you obtain a dedicated hosting server, you can not just host your web site files, but also offer shared hosting packages to other persons to make money. We, at YasHost, provide free billing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated hosting package of ours, which enables you to begin your very own web hosting firm and make revenue very fast since the hosting business niche is perpetually flourishing.