How Do Dedicated Hosting Servers Operate?

Free and paid shared plans are among the most commonly used website hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are appropriate for small-size web sites that do not necessitate plenty of system resources and do not have that many visitors, but for heavy resource-consuming web sites with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced platform is demanded. If you would like to have a steady, first-rate web hosting platform that can tackle even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated hosting is your most appropriate alternative.

Tackle the High Load Created by Your Websites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated solution, you lease an entire physical server whose resources will be utilized solely by your web sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more processors functioning at a particular speed, a given amount of memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A dedicated web server is actually a computer with a hardware configuration meant to handle high load and specific software installed on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the websites accommodated on it to be available on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be managed either by the hosting service provider, or by the customer, based on the particular dedicated hosting plan. In either instance, the party administering the dedicated machine has access to a software tool to restart it at any given moment. Management is carried out via a web hosting Control Panel graphical interface that enables you to check the tasks running on the dedicated machine.

OSs for Dedicated Hosting

There are different hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, and so on. Particular web hosting service providers provide dedicated hosting running one given Operating System, while others offer customers a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows server, for example, and will not perform on another Operating System, while PHP and HTML driven sites using MySQL databases will function on any OS. Prior to renting a dedicated hosting server, discover what the hosting company offers and what the requirements of your website are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server comes with all the software apps required in order to manage a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so the moment you get the dedicated machine, you can upload your web site files and take the site online. Most web hosting distributors offer complete server root access, in other words you can activate any software applications on the dedicated hosting server and alter any settings. Certain script-powered platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-activated in order for them to function. Different e-commerce software scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and gaining full server root access to the dedicated hosting server is essential for running an online store. Other web hosting distributors do not give full root-level access, but help the client activate the needed software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting service, which offers complete root access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'CedegarHost'

The web files on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either through a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or through a hosting CP graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of hosting Control Panel tools in existence, and usually web hosting distributors provide a couple of them, and with full server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web files, databases, electronic mails, access logs and program installations are managed effortlessly via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Specific Control Panels also have a reseller back office tool, so if you have a dedicated hosting server, you can not only host your files, but also offer shared website hosting plans to different clients to earn money. We, at CedegarHost, provide free billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated hosting package of ours, which permits you to establish your very own personal hosting company and make cash in no time because the hosting market niche is perpetually proliferating.