How Dedicated Servers Hosting Works

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most famous website hosting products on the marketplace. They are excellent for small-size web pages that do not require plenty of resources and do not attract that many visitors, but for high resource-devouring web portals with many 1000's of website visitors, a more powerful solution is necessary. If you would like to have a solid, top-notch shared hosting solution that can cope with even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your most excellent alternative.

Tackle the Heavy Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated hosting service, you lease a whole machine whose system resources will be utilized solely by your sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processors running at a specific speed, a particular amount of memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A dedicated server is indeed a computer with hardware intended to tackle heavy load and some software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the web sites accommodated on it to be visible online.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web hosting company, or by the customer, depending on the given dedicated server plan. In either instance, the side handling the dedicated server has access to a software platform to restart it at any particular time. Management is done via a hosting Control Panel GUI that permits you to supervise the processes running on the dedicated machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are different web hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, and so on. Particular hosting providers offer dedicated servers using one specific Operating System, whereas others offer customers a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites request a Windows server, for example, and will not work on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites utilizing MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated server, examine what the web hosting firm offers and what the needs of your website are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software platforms 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 hosting server, you can upload your website files and take the site online. The majority of hosting suppliers offer root privileges, i.e. you can activate any software on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Particular script-based platforms require server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Lots of shopping cart software scripts, for instance, have such a precondition, and having complete root-level access to the dedicated server is vital for administering a web shop. Other hosting providers do not offer complete root-level access, but help the client activate the required software platforms - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as compared with the unmanaged web hosting service, which offers root-level access.

Dedicated Server by 'STARTEWEB'

The web site files on the dedicated server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) console or through a hosting CP GUI such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of hosting Control Panel interfaces out there, and normally web hosting distributors offer a few of them, and with root-level access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All files, databases, email aliases, access logs and program installations are administered easily through a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Specific hosting CPs also comprise a reseller back office tool, so if you select a dedicated server, you can not only host your web files, but also sell shared hosting packages to different customers to make revenue. We, at STARTEWEB, provide free-of-charge billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server plan of ours, which permits you to constitute your very own personal hosting corporation and gain cash very quickly as the web hosting business is incessantly developing.