Dedicated Web Hosting Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main varieties - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate plenty of customers and hence the system resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration independence, but also affect other VPS web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the independence to do everything you prefer without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your corporation has a high resource-devouring web site, or just has very precise server configuration requirements, the proper choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You are granted full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

Most website hosting vendors, incl. us at Lirix, provide several different hardware architectures you can choose from in line with your needs. The configurations offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a handy user interface if you want to utilize the hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you want to grant full root access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia Control Panel tool that we offer does not offer root-level access and is mainly suitable for somebody who has many web sites that devour plenty of resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and emails using an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root privileges and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated hosting server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Lirix the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated web hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on two server hard drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root-level access erases something accidentally.