Dedicated Servers Description

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most commonly used hosting solutions on the market. They are splendid for small online portals that do not need a lot of resources and do not attract that many viewers, but for heavy resource-demanding web portals with many thousands of viewers, a more powerful solution is needed. If you demand a stable, leading-edge shared hosting platform that can cope with even 1 000 000's of everyday hits, a dedicated server is your most appropriate alternative.

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

With the dedicated server hosting solution, you lease an entire physical machine whose system resources will be used solely by your websites. Just like any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more processing units functioning at a specific speed, a given amount of memory, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A dedicated web server is indeed a computer with hardware aimed to cope with high load and some software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which permits the web sites accommodated on it to be accessible online.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting distributor, or by the client, depending on the specific dedicated server package. In either case, the side managing the dedicated hosting server has access to a software tool to restart it at any given moment. Management is done through a CP user interface that allows you to keep an eye on the services running on the dedicated web hosting server.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are various web server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, and so on. Particular hosting distributors provide dedicated servers using one particular OS, while others give clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites necessitate a Windows server, for instance, and will not perform on a different OS, while PHP and HTML driven websites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated server, learn what the hosting provider offers and what the requirements of your site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software applications needed in order to administer a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so the moment you get the web hosting server, you can upload your web files and get the web site online. Most web hosting vendors provide complete root-level access, i.e. you can install any software platforms on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Certain script-driven software platforms require server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to perform. Plenty of e-commerce software scripts, for instance, involve such a requirement, and being offered full root access to the dedicated server is vital for managing a web shop. Other hosting corporations do not give root privileges, but help the client activate the necessary software - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which comes with full root access.

Dedicated Server by 'Melanesia Web Hosting'

The files on the dedicated server can be managed either through a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or via a web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of hosting Control Panel graphical user interfaces in existence, and typically web hosting vendors provide a few of them, and with complete root access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All website files, databases, email aliases, access logs and program installations are handled effortlessly through a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Certain web hosting CPs also comprise a reseller back office dashboard, so if you have a dedicated server, you can not only host your web site files, but also sell shared website hosting packages to other people to gain cash. We, at Melanesia Web Hosting, offer cost-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which allows you to build your own personal web hosting firm and earn money in no time because the hosting market niche is constantly expanding.