What Does Dedicated Hosting Mean?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three basic kinds - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate numerous clients and so the resources per hosting account are limited, VPS offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other Virtual Private Servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to do everything you decide without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your company has a repeatedly visited web portal, or simply has very specific server architecture requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is of no concern. You are given complete server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware specs

Most web hosting service providers, incl. us at K-Hosting Services, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a handy interface if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers through SSH only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to give complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software installed is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software tool that we provide does not include full root privileges and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains many online portals that require lots of resources, but prefers to manage the online portals, databases and e-mailboxes through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your dedicated server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at K-Hosting Services 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 servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete server root access erases something by accident.