Dedicated Hosting Packages Description

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 major sorts - web hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting. Shared servers host plenty of clients and thus the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS hosting give you more configuration liberty, but also influence other private virtual web servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated hosting servers give you the freedom to do everything you want without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting servers?

Dedicated hosting servers are commonly much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your firm has a popular web site, or just has very special server architecture requirements, the most suitable option would be a dedicated hosting servers. For somebody who is willing to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You have full root access and can use 100% of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and interfering with your sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting vendors, incl. us at S2 Hosting, offer different hardware architectures you can select from depending on your necessities. The configurations include different varieties of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a convenient GUI if you want to utilize the dedicated hosting servers for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 types of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated hosting servers through an SSH console only. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you want to give root-level access to somebody else who has less technical abilities than yourself. That is why having Control Panel software activated is an intelligent idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we offer does not give you full server root access and is mostly suitable for someone who has plenty of websites that require lots of resources, but would rather manage the web sites, databases and electronic mail addresses using a user-friendly Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root privileges and have 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting accounts instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at S2 Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting servers as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the very same data on two disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access deletes something by mistake.