What Indeed are Dedicated Servers?

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

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is rather simple. If your corporation has a resource-absorbing web page, or simply has very special web server configuration requirements, the smartest option is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is inclined to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not an issue. You acquire root-level access and can utilize 100% of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting vendors, incl. us at Geldbach Solutions GmbH, offer several hardware configurations you can select from on the basis of your demands. The hardware configurations include different kinds of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a useful GUI if you would like to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you choose to give full root access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a fine idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel user interface that we provide does not give you complete root access and is mainly suitable for somebody who runs lots of web pages that devour lots of system resources, but wishes to administer the sites, databases and e-mail addresses through a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Geldbach Solutions GmbH 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 as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root access erases something by mistake.