Description of Dedicated Plans

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three main sorts - hosting servers, VPS (private virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web servers host many clients and hence the resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS give you more server configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the opportunity to perform everything you see fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is rather simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-swallowing web page, or simply has very explicit server setup requirements, the most sensible option would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is willing to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You get complete root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else using these system resources and meddling with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting service providers, including us at 1onlinehost, offer several hardware configurations you can pick from in accordance with your necessities. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk sizes and different traffic quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a useful tool if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell client only. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you wish to give complete server root access to someone else who has less technical skills than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software pre-activated is a clever idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel GUI that we provide does not give you complete server root access and is mainly suitable for someone who has numerous sites that swallow plenty of system resources, but would like to manage the online portals, databases and e-mailboxes through a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root privileges and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

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 dedicated web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at 1onlinehost 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 servers too. Backups are also a bonus option - the web hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root access deletes something by accident.