What is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 basic varieties - shared website hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate plenty of clients and hence the resources per user account are restricted, VPS accounts give you more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the liberty to perform everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more expensive than shared web hosting servers or virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your company has a high resource-consuming web page, or simply has very specific web server setup requirements, the most appropriate option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is of no importance. You acquire full server root access and can utilize 100 percent of the web hosting server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and messing with your web portals.

Hardware configurations

Most hosting service providers, including us at BlueHost24, offer several hardware architectures you can select from depending on your necessities. The hardware configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a handy interface if you want to use the dedicated hosting web server for web hosting purposes only and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide 3 types of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server via an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel software that we offer does not give you root access and is mostly suitable for somebody who runs multiple web sites that absorb a lot of system resources, but wants to administer the web sites, databases and electronic mail addresses using an easy-to-use hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than using the server only for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at BlueHost24 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 as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the very same data on 2 hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given root privileges deletes something unintentionally.