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What are Dedicated Servers?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three principal kinds - shared web hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate numerous clients and hence the resources per account are limited, VPS plans offer more server configuration liberty, but also affect other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you decide without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

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Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared servers or virtual private web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a heavy-traffic site, or simply has very special web server setup requirements, the most appropriate option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not a concern. You have full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware specifications

Most hosting service providers, including us at G-STARTUP, offer several different hardware architectures you can select from in line with your requirements. The configurations include different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can select a Control Panel, which is a handy graphical user interface if you would like to use the dedicated server for hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to grant full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software pre-activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we offer does not include full root access and is chiefly suitable for someone who runs numerous sites that absorb a lot of resources, but would like to administer the web portals, databases and mail aliases through an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant complete server root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the server just for yourself, you should pick 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 predicament with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at G-STARTUP 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 as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on two server hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something accidentally.