Dedicated Server Plans Definition

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three major sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host numerous clients and thus the system resources per account are limited, virtual private servers offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the independence to do everything you desire without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your firm has a high-traffic website, or just has very special web server architecture requirements, the most logical choice is a dedicated servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a concern. You obtain full server root privileges and can use 100 percent of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

Most hosting service providers, incl. us at Host Magi, offer different hardware architectures you can choose from depending on your necessities. The configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via an SSH client exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you choose to give full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting CP software installed is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP user interface that we offer does not offer complete root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who maintains numerous sites that consume lots of system resources, but would rather administer the web sites, databases and electronic mail aliases through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root-level access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Host Magi the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root access erases something unintentionally.