Dedicated Hosting Explanation

Free and paid shared packages are among the most widely used website hosting solutions on the market. They are great for small-scale web sites that do not need plenty of system resources and do not have that many viewers, but for resource-devouring sites with many 1000's of visitors, a more advanced solution is required. If you demand a solid, avant-garde hosting platform that can cope with even millions of daily hits, a dedicated server is your most excellent alternative.

Handle the Intense Load Created by Your Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server hosting solution, you lease a whole web server whose resources will be used only by your websites. Just as any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processing units functioning at a given speed, a given amount of memory, one or more hard drives, etc. A dedicated server is in fact a computer with hardware meant to handle heavy load and specific software activated on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which allows the websites accommodated on it to be accessible on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the hosting distributor, or by the client, based on the given dedicated server package. In either case, the party administering the web server has access to a software platform to restart it at any time. Management is done through a web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that enables you to keep track of the processes running on the hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various hosting server Operating Systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, and so on. Particular web hosting corporations offer dedicated servers using one specific Operating System, whereas others offer customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET sites necessitate a Windows server, for instance, and will not operate on another OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated server, check what the web hosting service provider provides and what the necessities of your site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software required to run a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated server, you can upload your web site files and bring the site online. Most web hosting corporations offer full root-level access, in other words you can install any software apps on the dedicated server and alter any settings. Certain script-based platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-activated in order for them to perform. A lot of e-commerce software scripts, for example, include such a precondition, and being supplied with full root access to the dedicated server is critical for managing a web storefront. Other hosting service providers do not give complete root-level access, but help the customer install the necessary software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as differentiated from the unmanaged hosting service, which includes full server root access.

Dedicated Server by 'Webtanium'

The web site files on the dedicated server can be handled either through a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or via a Control Panel GUI such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are tens of web hosting CP user interfaces out there, and normally web hosting distributors provide several of them, and with complete server root access at hand, the client can install any of them. All web files, databases, emails, access logs and script installations are managed effortlessly via a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Specific web hosting CPs also have a reseller back office panel, so if you buy a dedicated server, you can not merely host your web files, but also sell shared hosting packages to different people to earn money. We, at Webtanium, provide cost-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server plan of ours, which enables you to found your very own web hosting corporation and gain profit very quickly as the web hosting market is incessantly proliferating.