Dedicated Servers Description

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three basic categories - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate many customers and thus the resources per account are limited, VPS accounts offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the possibility to carry out everything you want without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a content-heavy web portal, or just has very specific server configuration requirements, the proper option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not a concern. You are bestowed with full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

Most hosting firms, incl. us at RMH Hosting, provide several hardware architectures you can select from on the basis of your demands. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful graphical user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH terminal exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to give root-level access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia Control Panel software tool that we offer does not include full server root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains a lot of web sites that devour plenty of system resources, but would rather manage the online portals, databases and mailbox accounts through an easy-to-use Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you root-level access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the server solely for yourself, you should pick 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 dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at RMH Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two server hard drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access erases something accidentally.