What are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most famous website hosting solutions on the market. They are great for small websites that do not demand a lot of system resources and do not draw that many visitors, but for huge websites with many thousands of website visitors, a more powerful solution is necessary. If you would like to have a robust, cutting-edge web hosting solution that can deal with even 1 000 000's of everyday hits, a dedicated hosting is your most suitable alternative.

Handle the Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web hosting service, you rent an entire physical machine whose resources will be used only by your web sites. Just like any computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more microprocessors operating at a specific speed, some amount of RAM, one or more disk drives, and so on. A dedicated server is actually a computer with hardware meant to tackle intense load and certain software installed on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the websites stored on it to be visible on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be managed either by the web hosting company, or by the customer, depending on the concrete dedicated hosting plan. In either instance, the party managing the dedicated web hosting server has access to a software tool to restart it at any particular moment. Management is carried out through a web hosting Control Panel GUI that permits you to supervise the tasks running on the dedicated machine.

OSs for Dedicated Hosting

There are different server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Some web hosting companies provide dedicated hosting using one specific OS, while others give clients a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET sites need a Windows web server, for example, and will not operate on a different Operating System, while PHP and HTML driven websites utilizing MySQL databases will function on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated hosting server, examine what the web hosting firm provides and what the requirements of your web site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software platforms needed in order to administer a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you obtain the web hosting server, you can upload your web files and bring the web site online. Most hosting firms offer full server root access, i.e. you can install any software applications on the dedicated hosting server and change any settings. Particular script-powered software platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Many shopping cart software scripts, for example, impose such a requirement, and being provided with complete root access to the dedicated hosting server is essential for setting up a web store. Other web hosting companies do not grant full server root privileges, but help the customer activate the needed software applications - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which comes with full root access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Webpage-it.com'

The content on the dedicated hosting server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or through a Control Panel user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of web hosting CP user interfaces in existence, and usually providers provide a couple of them, and with full server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web files, databases, mailboxes, access logs and script installations are handled easily via a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Certain Control Panels also comprise a reseller backend console, so if you purchase a dedicated hosting server, you can not just host your website files, but also sell shared hosting plans to other clients to earn revenue. We, at Webpage-it.com, provide charge-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated hosting plan of ours, which permits you to start your very own hosting corporation and earn money in no time because the hosting business niche is perpetually developing.