How Do Dedicated Servers Function?

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 main kinds - shared website hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate multiple customers and so the resources per user account are limited, VPS accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the option to do everything you choose without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or VPS hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your firm has a content-heavy web portal, or simply has very special web server setup requirements, the wisest option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and stability, the higher price is of no concern. You have root-level access and can use 100 percent of the hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these resources and meddling with your sites.

Hardware specs

Most hosting corporations, incl. us at Srbijasoft, offer several different hardware architectures you can choose from as per your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a convenient graphical user interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated web hosting server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell client exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you want to give full server root privileges to someone else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia Control Panel user interface that we provide does not offer complete root-level access and is mainly suitable for someone who runs numerous web sites that consume lots of system resources, but desires to administer the websites, databases and mailboxes using a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the web server only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at Srbijasoft 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 too. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given complete root access erases something by accident.