Definition of Dedicated Servers

When we speak of hosting servers, there are 3 basic sorts - shared hosting servers, VPS (private virtual servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers host lots of customers and hence the resources per user account are restricted, virtual private servers give you more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the autonomy to do everything you want without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a busy site, or just has very explicit server setup requirements, the smartest option would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is willing to invest in safety and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You are given root access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated web server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and interfering with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

Most website hosting suppliers, incl. us at Fuhri Hosting, offer different hardware architectures you can select from according to your necessities. The hardware architectures include different types of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can pick a Control Panel, which is a useful GUI if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell client exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, especially if you decide to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a good idea. The Hepsia hosting CP user interface that we provide does not give you root-level access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who has lots of websites that demand a lot of system resources, but wishes to administer the web sites, databases and email addresses through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and include three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting packages rather than utilizing the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

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 problem with your hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system activated. Here at Fuhri Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also a bonus feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could pick a kind of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on two server hard disks as a precaution in case of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access deletes something accidentally.