Dedicated Servers Web Hosting Description

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three major categories - shared web hosting servers, VPS (private virtual web hosting servers) and dedicated server web hosting. Shared web servers host plenty of customers and thus the system resources per hosting account are restricted, VPS web hosting offer more server configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual private hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated web hosting servers give you the possibility to perform everything you choose without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated web hosting servers?

Dedicated web hosting servers are traditionally much more high-priced than shared web servers or virtual private hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is very simple. If your company has a busy web portal, or just has very specific web server setup requirements, the most relevant option is a dedicated web hosting servers. For somebody who is prepared to invest in security and dependability, the greater price is not an issue. You acquire full root-level access and can utilize 100 percent of the server's system resources without anyone else utilizing these system resources and messing with your web sites.

Hardware architectures

The majority of website hosting vendors, including us at MindMeld Networks, LLC, provide several different hardware architectures you can pick from depending on your needs. The hardware architectures include different varieties of microprocessors, a different amount of cores, different RAM and server hard drive sizes and different traffic allowances. You can choose a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient GUI if you would like to use the dedicated web hosting servers for web hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell client for all the changes you will be making. We offer three kinds of hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting Control Panel of your preference

If you are a self-confident Linux user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server web hosting through SSH only. That, however, could be inconvenient, even more so if you want to give full root privileges to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having hosting Control Panel software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not include complete server root access and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns many sites that swallow plenty of resources, but wishes to administer the web pages, databases and email addresses through an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root access and include three levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated web hosting servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup procedures

Last but not least, there is the issue of monitoring the dedicated web hosting servers and of backing it up. In case of a predicament with your web hosting server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is desirable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at MindMeld Networks, LLC the system administrators monitor all dedicated web hosting servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated web hosting servers too. Backups are also an additional option - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a type of RAID that would permit you to save the same data on two server disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted access erases something by mistake.