Dedicated Web Hosting Explanation

Free and paid shared plans are among the most commonly used hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are good for small web portals that do not demand lots of system resources and do not draw that many visitors, but for large web pages with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced platform is needed. If you are searching for a reliable, hi-end web hosting solution that can tackle even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated web hosting is your most appropriate alternative.

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

With the dedicated hosting service, you lease an entire hosting server whose system resources will be used only by your sites. Just like any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more processing units running at a certain speed, a specific amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration designed to tackle intense load and given software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the web sites hosted on it to be accessible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Web Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be administered either by the provider, or by the customer, on the basis of the concrete dedicated web hosting plan. In either situation, the party administering the dedicated hosting server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any specific time. Management is done through a web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that allows you to keep track of the processes running on the dedicated web server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Web Hosting

There are various hosting server Operating Systems like Windows, FreeBSD, various Linux distributions, etc. Given hosting service providers offer dedicated web hosting using one given Operating System, while others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites request a Windows web server, for example, and will not run on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based sites utilizing MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated server, learn what the web hosting distributor offers and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software required in order to manage a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so once you obtain the dedicated server, you can upload your files and take the web site online. Most web hosts give root-level access, in other words you can install any software platforms on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Specific script-based software platforms require server-side apps that should be pre-activated in order for them to work. Many shopping cart scripts, for instance, impose such a requirement, and being granted full root access to the dedicated server is essential for launching an online shop. Other web hosting firms do not give complete root access, but help the client activate the required software applications - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting service, which includes full root access.

Dedicated Web Hosting by 'webgeardefault'

The files on the dedicated server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or through a web hosting Control Panel user interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of CP user interfaces available, and usually web hosting companies offer a couple of them, and with full root access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All files, databases, e-mailboxes, access logs and program installations are handled easily via a graphical interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Certain CPs also have a reseller backend panel, so if you select a dedicated server, you can not just host your web files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to different persons to gain money. We, at webgeardefault, offer free-of-charge billing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated web hosting package of ours, which allows you to found your own personal hosting company and generate revenue in no time because the hosting market niche is incessantly increasing.