Description of Dedicated Web Hosting

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most commonly used web hosting products on the marketplace. They are OK for small web sites that do not necessitate lots of system resources and do not attract that many web site visitors, but for high resource-requiring websites with many thousands of web site visitors, a more advanced platform is needed. If you would like to have a stable, first-rate web hosting solution that can handle even 1 000 000's of daily hits, a dedicated web hosting is your most excellent option.

Handle the High Load Caused by Your Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server hosting solution, you rent an entire hosting server whose system resources will be used only by your web sites. Just like any computer, each dedicated server has one or more processing units running at a specific speed, a certain amount of memory, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A hosting server is indeed a computer with hardware aimed to tackle intense load and some software activated on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the sites stored on it to be accessible online.

Managed Dedicated Web Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web hosting vendor, or by the client, on the basis of the specific dedicated web hosting plan. In either case, the party managing the physical machine has access to a software platform to restart it at any specific time. Management is carried out via a Control Panel interface that enables you to check the services running on the dedicated hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Web Hosting

There are different server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Particular hosting providers provide dedicated web hosting running one particular Operating System, while others give clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites require a Windows server, for instance, and will not operate on another OS, while PHP and HTML based web sites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before renting a dedicated server, check what the hosting distributor offers and what the necessities of your site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated server includes all the software applications needed to manage a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you get the dedicated web server, you can upload your web site files and take the website online. Most hosting companies provide root-level access, i.e. you can activate any software applications on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Some script-based platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to function. Various shopping cart scripts, for example, impose such a precondition, and being granted root access to the dedicated server is decisive for having an online shop. Other hosting service providers do not grant root-level access, but help the customer install the required software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as compared to the unmanaged hosting service, which includes full root-level access.

Dedicated Web Hosting by 'webgeardefault'

The web files on the dedicated server can be administered either through a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or through a web hosting CP GUI such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of hosting Control Panel GUIs out there, and typically web hosting corporations provide a number of them, and with complete root access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All web files, databases, mail aliases, access logs and script installations are handled easily via a GUI in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Given web hosting Control Panels also have a reseller back office tool, so if you get a dedicated server, you can not merely host your web files, but also offer shared website hosting plans to other clients to gain money. We, at webgeardefault, provide free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated web hosting package of ours, which allows you to build your own personal web hosting corporation and generate money in no time as the web hosting market is perpetually flourishing.