What are Dedicated Servers?

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 principal sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate lots of customers and so the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS packages give you more server configuration liberty, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the freedom to perform everything you think fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a resource-swallowing web page, or just has very specific web server setup requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and reliability, the greater price is of no concern. You have root access and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and intervening with your websites.

Hardware configurations

The majority of hosting providers, incl. us at Melanesia Web Hosting, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from in accordance with your needs. The hardware configurations offer different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you want to use the web hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We offer three types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH console exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you wish to give complete root access to someone else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP tool that we offer does not include complete root-level access and is mainly suitable for someone who has plenty of web portals that devour lots of system resources, but wants to manage the sites, databases and email mailbox accounts via a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans rather than utilizing the dedicated server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Melanesia Web Hosting 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 an extra feature - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access deletes something by mistake.