Dedicated Server Plans Defined

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three major varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host numerous clients and so the system resources per user account are limited, virtual private servers give you more configuration independence, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the possibility to do everything you desire without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your corporation has a heavy-traffic site, or simply has very explicit server setup requirements, the most logical choice is a dedicated servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not an issue. You get full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting providers, incl. us at Nelson's Hosting, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from depending on your necessities. The hardware configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use SSH for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we offer does not give you full server root access and is mainly suitable for someone who owns multiple web portals that devour lots of system resources, but would like to manage the web sites, databases and e-mail boxes through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select 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 problem with your hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Nelson's Hosting 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 an additional feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root privileges erases something by accident.