What Precisely are Dedicated Servers?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 basic sorts - hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate multiple clients and so the system resources per web hosting account are limited, VPS give you more configuration liberty, but also influence other VPS servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to carry out everything you want without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your corporation has a resource-requiring web portal, or just has very specific web server setup requirements, the most reasonable option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is of no importance. You acquire full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and intervening with your sites.

Hardware configurations

Most website hosting companies, incl. us at StokeWifi, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different traffic quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a handy interface if you want to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell terminal only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to give full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software that we offer does not offer root-level access and is chiefly suitable for someone who runs lots of websites that demand lots of system resources, but prefers to manage the websites, databases and electronic mail aliases via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

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 predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at StokeWifi the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 server hard drives as a precaution in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something by mistake.