Dedicated Servers Defined

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most commonly used website hosting products on the market. They are okay for small-size online portals that do not request plenty of resources and do not have that many website visitors, but for heavy resource-swallowing websites with many 1000's of visitors, a more powerful platform is demanded. If you are looking for a reliable, avant-garde hosting solution that can deal with even 1 000 000's of everyday hits, a dedicated server is your most suitable option.

Handle the Load Generated by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting service, you rent a whole machine whose resources will be used solely by your sites. Just as any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more processors functioning at a specific speed, a certain amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A dedicated web hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration meant to cope with high load and certain software activated on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which allows the sites stored on it to be visible online.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web host, or by the client, on the basis of the specific dedicated server package. In either instance, the party handling the dedicated machine has access to a software tool to restart it at any specific time. Management is carried out through a web hosting CP tool that permits you to check the services running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are different server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, and so on. Given hosting firms provide dedicated servers using one particular Operating System, whereas others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET websites request a Windows server, for example, and will not run on a different OS, while PHP and HTML based web sites utilizing MySQL databases will work on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated server, examine what the web hosting provider provides and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software apps needed to administer a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated machine, you can upload your files and bring the website online. The majority of hosting corporations offer complete root-level access, in other words you can activate any software apps on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Certain script-driven platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-activated in order for them to run. Lots of shopping cart scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and having complete root access to the dedicated server is crucial for making a web shop. Other web hosting distributors do not offer root-level access, but help the customer install the required software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which includes root access.

Dedicated Server by 'PhilWebDev Domain and Business Hosting Solution'

The website files on the dedicated server can be managed either through a Secure Shell (SSH) client or through a hosting Control Panel GUI like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of web hosting Control Panel graphical interfaces available, and normally providers offer a few of them, and with root access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All website files, databases, electronic mail aliases, access logs and program installations are handled easily through a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Given CPs also include a reseller backend panel, so if you settle on a dedicated server, you can not simply host your website files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to other individuals to earn money. We, at PhilWebDev Domain and Business Hosting Solution, provide cost-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server package of ours, which permits you to begin your own hosting corporation and make cash in no time since the web hosting business is perpetually evolving.