How Dedicated Servers Work

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three main sorts - hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host lots of clients and hence the system resources per user account are limited, VPS offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPS hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the chance to do everything you like without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared web servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your corporation has a data-heavy online portal, or simply has very special server configuration requirements, the most appropriate choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is not a problem. You are given full root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated hosting server's resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most hosting firms, incl. us at Syno-Host, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from as per your necessities. The hardware configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different traffic quotas. You can choose a hosting CP, which is a convenient interface if you wish to utilize the dedicated servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through an SSH terminal exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to grant full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software activated is a smart idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP interface that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who owns numerous web sites that require lots of resources, but would rather manage the web pages, databases and email aliases via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full server root access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages rather than using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should select 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 case of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Syno-Host 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 as well. Backups are also an extra option - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something unintentionally.