How Does Dedicated Hosting Work?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 major kinds - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated packages. Shared web hosting servers host multiple clients and thus the resources per account are limited, VPS give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to carry out everything you see fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a high-traffic web page, or just has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the wisest choice would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is of no importance. You are bestowed with root-level access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your websites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of web hosting providers, including us at City Portal, provide different hardware architectures you can pick from depending on your necessities. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a useful interface if you would like to use the dedicated servers for hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated packages via an SSH connection exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant access to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not offer full root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who maintains a lot of sites that devour a lot of resources, but wishes to administer the online portals, databases and mail addresses via a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should choose 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 case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at City Portal 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 as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 server hard drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access erases something unintentionally.