Dedicated Servers Unveiled

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 principal types - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual private hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate lots of customers and thus the resources per account are limited, virtual private servers give you more configuration independence, but also influence other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the option to do everything you prefer without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is very simple. If your corporation has a content-heavy site, or simply has very explicit server configuration requirements, the right option would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in security and reliability, the bigger price is not a problem. You get full root privileges and can use 100% of the server's resources without anyone else availing of these system resources and interfering with your online portals.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting corporations, incl. us at Melanesia Web Hosting, provide several hardware configurations you can pick from based on your necessities. The configurations include different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server disk drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can choose a Control Panel, which is a handy software tool if you want to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux OS user (our web servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated servers through an SSH tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to grant full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical expertise than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is a great idea. The Hepsia web hosting CP interface that we provide does not give you complete root access and is chiefly appropriate for somebody who owns many web pages that swallow a lot of resources, but wishes to administer the web portals, databases and email mailbox accounts via a user-friendly web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root privileges and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting accounts instead of using the dedicated servers solely for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your dedicated server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a network outage, it is good to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Melanesia Web Hosting the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated servers as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could pick a type of RAID that would permit you to have the very same data on two hard disk drives as a protective measure in the event of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root access deletes something by mistake.