What Exactly is Dedicated Hosting?

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are three major kinds - shared hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared web hosting servers host plenty of clients and thus the resources per account are restricted, VPS plans offer more server configuration independence, but also affect other VPSs on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the freedom to perform everything you decide without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a high resource-requiring web portal, or just has very precise web server configuration requirements, the most sensible choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not an issue. You receive full root privileges and can utilize 100% of the dedicated hosting web server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware specs

The majority of hosting suppliers, including us at Agile Soft, offer several hardware configurations you can choose from as per your necessities. The hardware architectures include different sorts of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth usage quotas. You can select a Control Panel, which is a convenient graphical user interface if you want to utilize the web server for hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH client for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three types of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your preference

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server via an SSH connection exclusively. That, though, could be inconvenient, even more so if you wish to grant root-level access to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a good idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel tool that we provide does not give you root access and is mainly appropriate for somebody who runs a lot of web sites that require lots of resources, but wants to manage the web pages, databases and email accounts via an intuitive Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, give you complete root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting plans instead of using the web server solely 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 the event of a predicament with your server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is useful to have some sort of monitoring platform activated. Here at Agile Soft 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 server too. Backups are also an extra feature - the web hosting provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could choose a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 server hard disk drives as a precaution in case of a server hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted root-level access erases something unintentionally.