Dedicated Plans Revealed

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are three major types - hosting servers, VPS (virtual private web servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers accommodate a lot of clients and thus the resources per account are restricted, VPS give you more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the option to perform everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are usually much more high-priced than shared web servers or Virtual Private Servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is quite simple. If your firm has a busy site, or simply has very specific server setup requirements, the smartest option would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is not an issue. You have full root privileges and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's system resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your web pages.

Hardware specs

Most website hosting companies, including us at Adirondack Online Services, LLC, offer several different hardware architectures you can pick from in keeping with your demands. The configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can choose a hosting Control Panel, which is a useful user interface if you wish to use the dedicated servers for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide three types of Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a confident Linux user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated servers through a Secure Shell terminal only. That, though, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to give full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software activated is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting CP interface that we offer does not give you complete server root access and is mostly appropriate for somebody who has lots of websites that demand plenty of system resources, but wants to manage the web sites, databases and e-mail aliases using an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full server root privileges and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts rather than utilizing the dedicated servers only 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 the event of a predicament with your dedicated web hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or a downtime, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Adirondack Online Services, LLC the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an extra feature - the hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to have the very same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in the event of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root privileges deletes something by mistake.