How Dedicated Servers Operate

Free and paid shared packages are one of the most popular hosting products on the marketplace. They are okay for small-size web pages that do not need lots of system resources and do not get that many web site visitors, but for busy online portals with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced solution is demanded. If you desire a rock solid, topflight shared hosting solution that can tackle even millions of daily hits, a dedicated server is your most appropriate alternative.

Handle the Heavy Load Created by Your Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting service, you rent a whole web server whose system resources will be used solely by your sites. Just like any computer, each dedicated server has one or more CPUs running at a specific speed, a specific amount of RAM, one or more disk drives, and so on. A server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration designed to handle intense load and some software activated on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the sites stored on it to be visible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting service provider, or by the customer, depending on the given dedicated server package. In either instance, the side managing the dedicated server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any particular time. Management is carried out via a Control Panel GUI that allows you to supervise the processes running on the physical machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are different web hosting server Operating Systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, and so on. Some hosting corporations provide dedicated servers running one particular Operating System, whereas others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites demand a Windows server, for example, and will not run on another OS, whereas PHP and HTML based websites using MySQL databases will perform on any Operating System. Prior to renting a dedicated server, learn what the hosting provider offers and what the requirements of your web site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software apps needed to administer a website - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so once you get the dedicated web hosting server, you can upload your website files and get the website online. The majority of hosting service providers give full root access, in other words you can install any software platforms on the dedicated server and change any settings. Particular script-based platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to operate. A lot of e-commerce software scripts, for example, impose such a requirement, and being granted root access to the dedicated server is critical for establishing a web storefront. Other web hosting firms do not grant full root access, but help the customer activate the needed software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as compared to the unmanaged hosting service, which offers root-level access.

Dedicated Server by 'Str Hosting'

The web files on the dedicated server can be administered either through a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or via a CP graphical user interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are tens of CP tools out there, and usually hosting firms offer a few of them, and with root-level access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All website files, databases, electronic mail aliases, access logs and script installations are handled easily via a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Given hosting CPs also include a reseller backend tool, so if you purchase a dedicated server, you can not simply host your files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to other persons to earn revenue. We, at Str Hosting, offer free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which allows you to start your own web hosting corporation and gain money very quickly since the hosting business is constantly flowering.