Dedicated Server Plans Definition

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host plenty of clients and so the resources per account are limited, virtual private servers offer more server configuration liberty, but also affect other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the option to perform everything you choose without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your corporation has a high resource-demanding web portal, or just has very specific web server configuration requirements, the proper choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is of no concern. You acquire complete root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of web hosting companies, incl. us at Nelson's Hosting, provide different hardware architectures you can select from in keeping with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is handy software if you would like to use the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to give root-level access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software pre-installed is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we offer does not give you full root-level access and is mostly suitable for someone who runs lots of sites that demand a lot of system resources, but would rather administer the sites, databases and e-mailbox accounts via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages instead of using 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 predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system 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 too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root-level access erases something unintentionally.