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Definition of Dedicated Web Hosting

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main varieties - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate a lot of clients and thus the resources per hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPS servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to do everything you see fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your company has a frequently visited website, or simply has very special web server architecture requirements, the most reasonable choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is of no importance. You are given complete root access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

The majority of website hosting distributors, incl. us at Real Estate Pro Hosting, offer several hardware architectures you can choose from as per your demands. The hardware architectures offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can pick a Control Panel, which is convenient software if you wish to use the dedicated hosting server for web hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH terminal only. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to grant full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a splendid idea. The Hepsia hosting CP graphical user interface that we provide does not include full root access and is mainly suitable for someone who maintains a lot of web sites that absorb lots of system resources, but would like to manage the web pages, databases and e-mail box accounts using an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting web server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Real Estate Pro Hosting 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 web hosting server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access deletes something accidentally.