Dedicated Web Hosting Explained

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 principal categories - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared servers accommodate a lot of customers and therefore the resources per account are limited, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration liberty, but also affect other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to do everything you please without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a high resource-demanding online portal, or simply has very special web server configuration requirements, the most reasonable option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is of no concern. You acquire complete root access and can use 100 percent of the server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and intervening with your sites.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting companies, incl. us at Lirix, offer several hardware architectures you can pick from as per your demands. The hardware configurations offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can choose a Control Panel, which is useful software if you would like to utilize the dedicated web hosting server for web hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you choose to give complete root access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we offer does not include root-level access and is mainly suitable for someone who owns multiple online portals that absorb a lot of system resources, but desires to manage the web pages, databases and mail aliases through an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root-level access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than using the 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 the event of a predicament with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Lirix the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access erases something by mistake.