Dedicated Web Hosting Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three basic types - web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated web hosting. Shared web servers host a lot of customers and so the resources per user account are limited, VPS web hosting offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the possibility to perform everything you like without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a high resource-devouring web site, or simply has very exact web server configuration requirements, the most suitable choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the greater price is not a concern. You are granted complete root access and can use 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your sites.

Hardware specs

Most web hosting vendors, incl. us at Cleardigitalwave, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from according to your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you want to use the dedicated servers for hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated web hosting via a Secure Shell client only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to give access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP tool that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is mainly suitable for someone who runs multiple web pages that swallow lots of resources, but wants to administer the web pages, databases and e-mailboxes via an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Cleardigitalwave 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 servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access erases something unintentionally.