Dedicated Hosting Uncovered

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three basic varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared hosting servers host numerous customers and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS hosting give you more configuration independence, but also affect other VPS servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated hosting servers give you the option to do everything you decide without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is quite simple. If your corporation has a content-heavy online portal, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the most reasonable option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not a concern. You have root access and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your web portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting suppliers, including us at iNet Bulgaria, provide different hardware configurations you can choose from as per your necessities. The hardware configurations offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a useful software tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated hosting servers via an SSH terminal only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to give root access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not include full server root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who owns plenty of web pages that devour a lot of resources, but would rather manage the web sites, databases and email accounts using an intuitive web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated hosting servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at iNet Bulgaria 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 an extra feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access erases something by mistake.