Dedicated Hosting Definition

When we talk about hosting servers, there are three main varieties - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate many customers and thus the system resources per user account are limited, VPS accounts give you more configuration freedom, but also influence other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the autonomy to do everything you wish without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your firm has a high resource-requiring web site, or just has very exact web server architecture requirements, the smartest choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the bigger price is of no importance. You are given root access and can use 100% of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting providers, incl. us at IRCMRU Hosting, offer several hardware configurations you can select from based on your needs. The hardware architectures offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a handy GUI if you want to utilize the hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via a Secure Shell client only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you want to grant root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel GUI that we provide does not give you full root access and is mainly suitable for someone who runs lots of websites that require a lot of system resources, but wants to manage the web pages, databases and electronic mail accounts using a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated web hosting server just 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 server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at IRCMRU Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to save the same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access erases something accidentally.