Description of Dedicated Servers

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 basic types - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers host a lot of customers and so the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS packages offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to carry out everything you want without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared hosting web servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your firm has a intense-traffic online portal, or just has very exact web server architecture requirements, the most appropriate option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is not a concern. You gain full root privileges and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and messing with your web pages.

Hardware specs

Most hosting providers, incl. us at eTesLa Technologies LLC, offer different hardware architectures you can select from in line with your needs. The configurations offer different kinds of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different web traffic quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a handy software tool if you wish to utilize the dedicated web server for hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH client exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to grant full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software installed is an excellent idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not include full root privileges and is mainly appropriate for somebody who maintains many websites that consume a lot of resources, but wants to manage the sites, databases and electronic mails via an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and offer 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell web hosting accounts rather than using the web server only for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at eTesLa Technologies LLC the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated server too. Backups are also an additional option - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the same data on two server disk drives as a protective measure in case of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access deletes something unintentionally.