Dedicated Packages Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three basic varieties - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate multiple customers and hence the resources per account are limited, VPS packages offer more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to do everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your company has a heavy resource-consuming online portal, or simply has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the most reasonable choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not a problem. You are granted complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and meddling with your online portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting providers, incl. us at City Portal, offer several hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your necessities. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different monthly traffic usage quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a handy graphical user interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell terminal exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you wish to give full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not offer complete root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who has multiple web sites that swallow a lot of system resources, but prefers to manage the web portals, databases and electronic mail aliases through an easy-to-use web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root privileges and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

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 server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system 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 server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would allow you to store 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 root access deletes something unintentionally.