Description of Dedicated Server Hosting

When we talk about hosting web servers, there are 3 basic types - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared hosting web servers host many customers and therefore the system resources per hosting account are restricted, virtual private server packages give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the possibility to perform everything you decide without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are commonly much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is quite simple. If your corporation has a resource-absorbing site, or just has very special web server architecture requirements, the most reasonable option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not a concern. You get full root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these system resources and intervening with your web portals.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting distributors, incl. us at Polonia Servers, offer several different hardware configurations you can select from based on your necessities. The configurations offer different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can pick a hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you would like to utilize the web server for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you wish to give full root privileges to someone else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having hosting CP software installed is a clever idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel interface that we provide does not offer full root privileges and is mostly suitable for somebody who maintains a lot of web portals that devour a lot of resources, but would like to administer the web portals, databases and e-mail accounts via an easy-to-use hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, give you full root access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting accounts instead of using the web hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your hosting server, like a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is good to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at Polonia Servers 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 hosting server too. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to keep the very same data on two server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a server hard drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root access deletes something unintentionally.