Dedicated Hosting Clarified

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main types - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared web servers host plenty of customers and thus the resources per user account are restricted, VPS hosting give you more configuration independence, but also influence other VPS web servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the opportunity to do everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is rather simple. If your company has a heavy resource-demanding web site, or just has very exact server architecture requirements, the most intelligent choice would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the higher price is of no concern. You have root privileges and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware specs

The majority of website hosting companies, including us at YasHost, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your requirements. The configurations include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can pick a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting servers through an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you wish to give complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software tool that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who has multiple sites that demand plenty of resources, but wishes to administer the web sites, databases and e-mailbox accounts through an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans rather than using the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web 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 the event of a problem with your web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at YasHost 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 as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete server root access deletes something by accident.