Dedicated Servers Uncovered

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 principal kinds - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host plenty of customers and thus the resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts give you more configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the independence to do everything you decide without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your corporation has a heavy-traffic website, or simply has very explicit web server architecture requirements, the most intelligent choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the greater price is of no concern. You gain root-level access and can use 100% of the hosting web server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

Most shared hosting providers, incl. us at Aim Media Networks LLC, provide different hardware configurations you can pick from in keeping with your necessities. The hardware configurations include different sorts of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can select a hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you want to utilize the dedicated web server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH connection only. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we offer does not include root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns lots of web sites that consume lots of system resources, but desires to manage the sites, databases and e-mailboxes using an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of using the dedicated hosting server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. 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 a bonus option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root access erases something accidentally.