Dedicated Servers Explained

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three basic categories - hosting servers, VPS (virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers accommodate many customers and therefore the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS offer more configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used heedlessly, and dedicated servers give you the opportunity to perform everything you desire without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is pretty simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-consuming web portal, or simply has very specific web server configuration requirements, the most sensible option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and dependability, the higher price is not a problem. You are given complete server root access and can utilize 100% of the web server's system resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and meddling with your web sites.

Hardware configurations

Most hosting service providers, incl. us at Srbijasoft, offer several hardware architectures you can choose from based on your demands. The hardware configurations include different varieties of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is handy software if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers via an SSH connection exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you wish to grant complete root-level access to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting CP tool that we provide does not offer full root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who owns lots of sites that absorb lots of resources, but would like to manage the websites, databases and email accounts through a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Srbijasoft 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 servers as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the very same data on two hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given access deletes something unintentionally.