Dedicated Plans Definition

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three principal categories - hosting servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host numerous clients and thus the resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual private web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to perform everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your company has a resource-requiring site, or simply has very specific server architecture requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated servers. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You acquire complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware specs

Most web hosting service providers, incl. us at Live Studios 24, provide different hardware configurations you can select from according to your needs. The hardware architectures offer different sorts of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a convenient user interface if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to an SSH client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our web hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through an SSH tunnel only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you decide to give full root privileges to someone else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia Control Panel user interface that we offer does not offer full root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for someone who owns numerous web portals that demand lots of resources, but would rather administer the sites, databases and e-mails using a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Live Studios 24 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 servers too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting services provider offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to have the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access deletes something unintentionally.