Dedicated Server Packages Clarified

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate multiple customers and thus the resources per account are restricted, virtual private servers give you more server configuration independence, but also affect other private virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers give you the liberty to perform everything you prefer without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The explanation is pretty simple. If your firm has a resource-swallowing web page, or simply has very precise server configuration requirements, the most suitable option is a dedicated servers. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the greater price is not a problem. You are bestowed with root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the physical machine's system resources without anyone else sharing these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting corporations, incl. us at ooFinity.com, provide several different hardware configurations you can select from depending on your requirements. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server disk drive sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH terminal for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux user (our hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell console only. That, however, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to grant root-level access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel software that we provide does not offer complete root access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who owns plenty of web portals that swallow a lot of resources, but desires to manage the web pages, databases and email mailboxes using an easy-to-use web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you root-level access and offer three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at ooFinity.com 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 an additional feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to have the same data on 2 disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given full server root privileges erases something accidentally.