What are Dedicated Servers?

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate lots of clients and so the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private servers give you more server configuration independence, but also affect other virtual private web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the independence to perform everything you prefer without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a high resource-swallowing website, or simply has very exact server architecture requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a problem. You are granted full root-level access and can utilize 100% of the hosting server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting companies, including us at WANTOK Web Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from based on your demands. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a handy user interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only 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-assured Linux user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you want to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we provide does not include root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who has numerous websites that devour plenty of resources, but would rather manage the sites, databases and email accounts through an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root-level access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting packages instead of using the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at WANTOK Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root access erases something unintentionally.