What are Dedicated Servers?

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three basic sorts - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host plenty of clients and so the system resources per account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more configuration liberty, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if used rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to perform everything you see fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a high resource-swallowing online portal, or just has very special web server configuration requirements, the most logical choice would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in safety and stability, the greater price is not an issue. You are bestowed with root privileges and can use 100% of the web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of shared hosting corporations, including us at jitmart.net, offer different hardware configurations you can pick from on the basis of your demands. The hardware architectures offer different varieties of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk sizes and different bandwidth usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful software tool if you would like to use the dedicated hosting web server for website hosting purposes solely and choose not to use a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choosing

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could manage your dedicated server through a Secure Shell connection exclusively. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you choose to grant root privileges to someone else who has less technical expertise than yourself. This is why having hosting Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that we provide does not give you complete root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who has lots of web sites that swallow a lot of resources, but prefers to administer the web pages, databases and e-mail boxes via a user-friendly hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root-level access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than utilizing the web server just for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring platform activated. Here at jitmart.net 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 server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would allow you to store the very same data on 2 server hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access erases something by accident.