How Does Dedicated Servers Web Hosting Work?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major sorts - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated web hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate a lot of customers and therefore the resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration independence, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the chance to perform everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated web hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your company has a heavy resource-demanding web portal, or simply has very specific web server configuration requirements, the wisest choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is of no concern. You get full root privileges and can use 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared web hosting suppliers, including us at Zonk Host, provide several hardware configurations you can select from in keeping with your necessities. The configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a useful interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH console only. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you wish to grant complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP software tool that we offer does not give you complete root access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who maintains lots of web portals that consume plenty of system resources, but prefers to administer the websites, databases and e-mailbox accounts through an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Zonk Host 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 as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 hard disks as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access erases something unintentionally.