What Do Dedicated Servers Signify?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three major sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate numerous clients and thus the resources per account are limited, VPS plans give you more configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to carry out everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-devouring web portal, or simply has very special server setup requirements, the wisest option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the higher price is of no concern. You acquire full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the hosting server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting service providers, including us at Geldbach Solutions GmbH, offer several different hardware configurations you can choose from in keeping with your needs. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you wish to give root-level access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not include root access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who has numerous web portals that require plenty of resources, but would rather administer the web pages, databases and mailbox aliases using an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root-level access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting web server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Geldbach Solutions GmbH 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 too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root-level access deletes something unintentionally.