Explanation of Dedicated Servers Hosting

Free and paid shared packages are among the most famous website hosting products on the market. They are okay for small online portals that do not request plenty of system resources and do not get that many website visitors, but for resource-absorbing sites with many thousands of web site visitors, a more advanced solution is needed. If you require an advanced, no-holds-barred shared hosting solution that can handle even 1 000 000's of daily hits, a dedicated server is your most excellent alternative.

Tackle the Heavy Load Caused by Your Sites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web hosting service, you lease a whole web hosting server whose resources will be used only by your web sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated hosting server has one or more central processing units functioning at a particular speed, a particular amount of memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A dedicated hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration meant to tackle heavy load and given software activated on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which allows the sites stored on it to be accessible on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Services

A dedicated hosting server can be managed either by the web hosting vendor, or by the client, on the basis of the particular dedicated server package. In either instance, the party administering the dedicated web hosting server has access to a software platform to restart it at any particular time. Administration is done through a web hosting Control Panel interface that enables you to supervise the tasks running on the web server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are different server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, an array of Linux distributions, and so on. Particular web hosting suppliers offer dedicated servers utilizing one given Operating System, while others give clients an option. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites require a Windows server, for example, and will not perform on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven websites using MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated hosting server, find out what the hosting company offers and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated hosting server offers all the software needed to run a website - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated hosting server, you can upload your files and get the website online. Most providers grant root access, in other words you can install any software platforms on the dedicated hosting server and update any settings. Specific script-driven platforms need server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to run. Plenty of shopping cart scripts, for example, involve such a requirement, and receiving complete root access to the dedicated hosting server is crucial for making a web store. Other hosting service providers do not provide full root privileges, but help the client install the necessary software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as compared to the unmanaged hosting solution, which includes root-level access.

Dedicated Server by 'hostingdad'

The textual, visual and aural content on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) console or through a Control Panel graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of web hosting Control Panel graphical user interfaces in existence, and typically web hosts offer a couple of them, and with full root-level access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All website files, databases, electronic mails, access logs and program installations are managed effortlessly through a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Given web hosting Control Panels also have a reseller backend tool, so if you purchase a dedicated hosting server, you can not only host your files, but also offer shared web hosting packages to other people to gain profit. We, at hostingdad, offer free-of-charge billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which permits you to build your very own personal hosting company and gain revenue very quickly since the hosting business niche is perpetually blooming.