Dedicated Server Plans Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three major sorts - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate numerous customers and so the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to do everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your corporation has a high resource-swallowing website, or simply has very exact web server configuration requirements, the most appropriate choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a concern. You are bestowed with root privileges and can use 100 percent of the physical server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting companies, including us at Aim Media Networks LLC, offer several hardware configurations you can pick from according to your demands. The hardware architectures include different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different traffic quotas. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you would like to utilize the hosting server for web hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you choose to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include full server root access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who has lots of web portals that consume plenty of resources, but would like to manage the websites, databases and e-mail addresses via an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated hosting web server 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 server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Aim Media Networks LLC 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 too. Backups are also an extra feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on two server hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access deletes something by accident.