How Dedicated Hosting Functions

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three basic sorts - hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate lots of customers and thus the resources per account are restricted, VPS give you more configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPS web hosting servers on the hardware node if used imprudently, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to do everything you like without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared hosting servers or VPS web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your corporation has a high resource-devouring web portal, or simply has very precise web server setup requirements, the most sensible choice is a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You obtain full root-level access and can use 100 percent of the physical machine's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and messing with your online portals.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting service providers, incl. us at Gemini Core Solutions, provide several hardware architectures you can select from depending on your necessities. The hardware configurations include different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is handy software if you wish to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our dedicated servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated servers via SSH only. That, though, could be awkward, even more so if you decide to grant access to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-activated is a brilliant idea. The Hepsia hosting CP tool that we offer does not include full root privileges and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns lots of web pages that consume lots of resources, but desires to administer the websites, databases and email aliases via an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you complete root-level access and have three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers only for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Gemini Core Solutions 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 too. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete server root access erases something by mistake.