Dedicated Servers Defined

Free and paid shared packages are among the most commonly used website hosting products on the marketplace. They are OK for small web portals that do not demand lots of resources and do not have that many viewers, but for heavy resource-consuming web sites with many 1000's of website visitors, a more powerful solution is necessary. If you demand a rock solid, top-quality shared hosting platform that can cope with even 1 000 000's of everyday hits, a dedicated server is your perfect choice.

Tackle the Intense Load Created by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting solution, you lease a whole hosting server whose system resources will be utilized only by your web sites. Just like any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more microprocessors functioning at a particular speed, a particular amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A hosting server is in fact a computer with hardware meant to tackle heavy load and given software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which allows the web sites accommodated on it to be available on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the provider, or by the client, on the basis of the given dedicated server plan. In either situation, the party managing the dedicated web server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any particular time. Administration is carried out through a Control Panel interface that permits you to monitor the services running on the machine.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are various server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, and so on. Certain web hosting distributors offer dedicated servers using one given Operating System, whereas others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites need a Windows web server, for instance, and will not run on another OS, while PHP and HTML based websites using MySQL databases will run on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated server, discover what the provider offers and what the necessities of your site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server includes 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 the moment you get the server, you can upload your web files and bring the site online. The majority of hosting corporations provide full root privileges, i.e. you can install any software apps on the dedicated server and alter any settings. Particular script-driven software platforms need server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to run. A lot of e-commerce software scripts, for example, have such a precondition, and obtaining root access to the dedicated server is decisive for managing an online storefront. Other web hosting companies do not offer full root-level access, but help the client activate the required software - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as compared with the unmanaged web hosting solution, which offers full server root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'HostTower'

The content on the dedicated server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or via a Control Panel graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of web hosting Control Panel tools out there, and normally web hosting distributors provide a few of them, and with full root access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All website files, databases, e-mail boxes, access logs and script installations are managed effortlessly via a GUI in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Some hosting Control Panels also include a reseller backend tool, so if you select a dedicated server, you can not only host your website files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to different people to earn profit. We, at HostTower, offer charge-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server package of ours, which enables you to build your own web hosting company and make revenue very fast since the web hosting business niche is constantly flourishing.