Definition of Dedicated Web Hosting

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are three main categories - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting servers accommodate numerous clients and therefore the resources per account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more server configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to carry out everything you choose without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is very simple. If your firm has a heavy-content website, or just has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most logical choice is a dedicated server. For someone who is willing to invest in security and dependability, the bigger price is not an issue. You obtain root privileges and can use 100 percent of the hosting web server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting service providers, including us at Zasta Hosting, provide several different hardware architectures you can choose from in line with your necessities. The configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can select a hosting CP, which is a handy graphical user interface if you would like to utilize the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH console only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is mainly appropriate for somebody who has multiple sites that consume a lot of system resources, but desires to administer the sites, databases and mailboxes through an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete server root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than using the hosting server solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

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 dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at Zasta 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 too. Backups are also a bonus option - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on 2 server hard drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges erases something unintentionally.