Dedicated Hosting Plans Revealed

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 major kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate multiple customers and so the resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration freedom, but also affect other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to carry out everything you think fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPS web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a high resource-requiring site, or simply has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most suitable choice would be a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not an issue. You gain full server root privileges and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else using these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of web hosting vendors, including us at nextlevelwebhost, offer different hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your needs. The configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different traffic quotas. You can select a hosting CP, which is a useful interface if you would like to use the dedicated web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-assured Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant full root privileges to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP graphical user interface that we provide does not include complete root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains a lot of websites that devour a lot of system resources, but wishes to administer the web sites, databases and mail addresses through an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of using the web server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at nextlevelwebhost the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on 2 server hard disks as a protective measure in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete server root access erases something by accident.