Dedicated Servers Defined

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 principal varieties - shared hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate a lot of customers and thus the system resources per user account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration freedom, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to perform everything you think fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is rather simple. If your company has a heavy resource-absorbing web site, or simply has very specific server architecture requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and stability, the higher price is not a problem. You get root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the server's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting providers, incl. us at Safilink: All Web Services, provide several different hardware architectures you can select from in keeping with your requirements. The configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth allowances. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful tool if you wish to use the dedicated web server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell console only. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give complete root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software installed is a good idea. The Hepsia Control Panel tool that we offer does not include full server root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who owns plenty of online portals that demand lots of system resources, but wishes to manage the web portals, databases and mailbox accounts via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the web hosting server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

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 problem with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Safilink: All Web Services the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting solutions provider 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 2 hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root access deletes something accidentally.