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What Exactly are Dedicated Servers?

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When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 main categories - shared hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host many customers and hence the resources per account are limited, virtual private server packages give you more configuration independence, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the option to carry out everything you please without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your corporation has a high resource-demanding web page, or just has very exact web server configuration requirements, the right option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is of no concern. You receive root-level access and can use 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else using these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared hosting providers, including us at acrilhost, offer several hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your requirements. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard disk sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a handy tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you wish to grant access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software tool that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains many websites that demand lots of system resources, but desires to administer the websites, databases and email box accounts using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at acrilhost 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on two hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges erases something accidentally.

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