Description of Dedicated Hosting

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 principal types - web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers accommodate a lot of clients and thus the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS hosting offer more server configuration liberty, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers offer you the chance to carry out everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are typically much more high-priced than shared servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your company has a heavy resource-absorbing web site, or just has very explicit server architecture requirements, the most intelligent option is a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You gain full root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the hosting web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting firms, including us at NextLink Cloud, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from based on your necessities. The hardware architectures include different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a handy tool if you would like to use the dedicated hosting servers for web hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated hosting via an SSH client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia Control Panel user interface that we offer does not include full root privileges and is chiefly suitable for someone who has many web portals that demand lots of system resources, but wants to administer the online portals, databases and email addresses via an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans rather than using the dedicated hosting servers only 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 hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at NextLink Cloud the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers too. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on 2 disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges erases something accidentally.