What Precisely is Dedicated Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are among the most widely used website hosting products on the marketplace. They are suitable for small web portals that do not necessitate lots of resources and do not have that many viewers, but for high resource-absorbing online portals with many 1000's of viewers, a more advanced solution is necessary. If you are searching for a rock solid, leading-edge shared hosting solution that can tackle even 1 000 000's of everyday hits, a dedicated server is your most suitable choice.

Tackle the High Load Generated by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated web server hosting service, you lease an entire physical machine whose resources will be used solely by your sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processing units functioning at a specific speed, a specific amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A web hosting server is actually a computer with a hardware configuration designed to tackle intense load and certain software activated on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which allows the web sites stored on it to be visible online.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web hosting service provider, or by the client, based on the given dedicated server package. In either case, the side managing the physical server has access to a software platform to restart it at any given time. Management is done via a Control Panel graphical interface that enables you to supervise the tasks running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are different server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Given web hosting distributors provide dedicated servers using one particular Operating System, while others offer customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites request a Windows web server, for example, and will not work on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will work on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated server, discover what the host offers and what the requirements of your website are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software apps required in order to administer a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you get the hosting server, you can upload your files and take the website online. Most web hosting vendors grant root privileges, i.e. you can activate any software on the dedicated server and update any settings. Specific script-powered platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to operate. Different e-commerce scripts, for instance, include such a precondition, and obtaining complete root-level access to the dedicated server is decisive for running an online storefront. Other web hosting suppliers do not grant root-level access, but help the customer activate the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as compared with the unmanaged web hosting solution, which comes with full server root access.

Dedicated Server by 'Enterprise Technology'

The website files on the dedicated server can be handled either via a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or via a CP graphical interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of web hosting CP graphical user interfaces in existence, and normally web hosting corporations provide a few of them, and with root-level access at hand, the client can install any of them. All website files, databases, electronic mail aliases, access logs and program installations are managed easily via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Particular web hosting Control Panels also comprise a reseller back office tool, so if you choose a dedicated server, you can not just host your website files, but also offer shared web hosting plans to different clients to make cash. We, at Enterprise Technology, offer cost-free billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server plan of ours, which enables you to set up your very own personal web hosting firm and make cash very quickly since the hosting market is perpetually increasing.