Dedicated Servers Description

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major categories - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers host numerous customers and so the resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the independence to do everything you think fit without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is very simple. If your firm has a data-heavy web site, or simply has very explicit web server setup requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is not a concern. You are granted full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the web hosting server's system resources without anyone else availing of these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware specs

The majority of shared hosting providers, including us at Pepcube Web Hosting, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from in consonance with your demands. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a convenient software tool if you wish to use the hosting server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell console exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you decide to give root privileges to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not offer complete server root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who owns a lot of web sites that swallow plenty of resources, but wishes to administer the web pages, databases and e-mailboxes using an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root access and offer three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Pepcube Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the same data on 2 server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete server root access erases something by accident.