Dedicated Servers Clarified

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most commonly used website hosting solutions on the market. They are splendid for small online portals that do not demand lots of system resources and do not attract that many website visitors, but for resource-requiring online portals with many thousands of viewers, a more powerful platform is necessary. If you need a robust, hi-end hosting solution that can cope with even millions of daily visits, a dedicated server is your most appropriate alternative.

Handle the Intense Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting solution, you lease a whole physical machine whose resources will be utilized only by your sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated server has one or more CPUs functioning at a given speed, a given amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A dedicated web server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration designed to tackle heavy load and specific software activated on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which permits the web sites accommodated on it to be reachable online.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the hosting company, or by the customer, based on the given dedicated server package. In either case, the party administering the web server has access to a software platform to restart it at any moment. Management is carried out via a CP tool that allows you to check the processes running on the hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, an array of Linux distributions, and so on. Specific web hosting firms provide dedicated servers running one particular OS, whereas others give clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites need a Windows server, for instance, and will not operate on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before renting a dedicated server, find out what the hosting supplier provides and what the requirements of your site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software required in order to manage a website - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so once you get the web server, you can upload your web files and bring the website online. Most web hosts provide root-level access, in other words you can activate any software on the dedicated server and revise any settings. Given script-driven software platforms require server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to operate. Lots of e-commerce software scripts, for instance, impose such a precondition, and having complete server root access to the dedicated server is essential for launching an online shop. Other web hosting service providers do not give complete server root access, but help the client activate the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as compared to the unmanaged hosting service, which comes with full root access.

Dedicated Server by 'hostatnocost'

The website files on the dedicated server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or through a web hosting Control Panel tool like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of hosting Control Panel GUIs available, and usually web hosting corporations offer a few of them, and with complete server root access at hand, the client can install any of them. All web files, databases, mail aliases, access logs and script installations are managed effortlessly through a graphical user interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Specific Control Panels also have a reseller backend tool, so if you opt for a dedicated server, you can not just host your web files, but also sell shared hosting plans to other individuals to generate revenue. We, at hostatnocost, offer free-of-cost billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which permits you to found your very own web hosting firm and gain cash very quickly because the web hosting market niche is perpetually enlarging.