Dedicated Hosting Services Description

When we speak of web hosting servers, there are 3 basic categories - shared hosting web servers, VPS (private virtual web servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers accommodate numerous customers and hence the system resources per web hosting account are limited, virtual private server packages offer more configuration freedom, but also influence other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized heedlessly, and dedicated servers offer you the option to perform everything you decide without messing with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are typically much more high-priced than shared web servers or private virtual hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your firm has a heavy resource-demanding web site, or simply has very explicit server setup requirements, the right option is a dedicated server. For someone who is ready to invest in security and reliability, the higher price is not an issue. You gain complete root-level access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else using these resources and interfering with your web pages.

Hardware specs

The majority of web hosting companies, incl. us at ARTIC, provide several different hardware configurations you can pick from according to your requirements. The configurations include different kinds of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and hard disk drive sizes and different traffic usage quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a convenient tool if you would like to use the dedicated hosting web server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide 3 sorts of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-reliant Linux user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through an SSH console only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you wish to give full server root access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. This is why having Control Panel software activated is a bright idea. The Hepsia hosting CP tool that we provide does not offer full root-level access and is chiefly suitable for somebody who has plenty of web sites that consume lots of system resources, but prefers to manage the web pages, databases and email addresses through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant full root access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of utilizing the dedicated hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web hosting server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring system activated. Here at ARTIC the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting solutions provider offers you data backups on our own backup web servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on two hard disks as a protective measure in the event of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted complete root access erases something unintentionally.