Description of Dedicated Hosting

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three major categories - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers host a lot of customers and thus the resources per user account are limited, virtual private server plans offer more server configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to do everything you please without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more expensive than shared web servers or private virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The explanation is very simple. If your corporation has a big web portal, or simply has very precise web server configuration requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is of no concern. You acquire full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the hosting web server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and interfering with your sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of web hosting providers, including us at S2 Hosting, offer several hardware architectures you can pick from on the basis of your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you would like to use the web hosting server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to SSH for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, especially if you choose to grant complete root access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software installed is a splendid idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not offer full root-level access and is chiefly suitable for someone who maintains lots of web pages that devour lots of resources, but prefers to manage the web sites, databases and electronic mails using an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full server root access and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts rather than utilizing the server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at S2 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 hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to save the very same data on two server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root-level access deletes something unintentionally.