Definition of Dedicated Hosting

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most extensively used website hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are appropriate for small-scale sites that do not need plenty of resources and do not get that many viewers, but for heavy resource-swallowing web sites with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced solution is required. If you require a rock solid, hi-end hosting platform that can handle even millions of daily hits, a dedicated server is your best option.

Tackle the High Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated web hosting solution, you lease an entire server whose system resources will be utilized solely by your web sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated server has one or more CPUs running at a particular speed, a given amount of RAM, one or more disk drives, and so on. A hosting server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration meant to handle intense load and given software installed on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, etc., which permits the web sites hosted on it to be accessible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting vendor, or by the customer, based on the concrete dedicated server package. In either case, the side administering the web server has access to a software tool to restart it at any specific moment. Administration is carried out via a web hosting CP GUI that enables you to supervise the tasks running on the dedicated machine.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are various web hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, and so on. Particular web hosting providers offer dedicated servers using one particular OS, while others offer clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites require a Windows web server, for instance, and will not perform on another Operating System, while PHP and HTML based web sites using MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Prior to renting a dedicated server, learn what the web hosting distributor offers and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software needed to administer a website - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated hosting server, you can upload your web site files and take the web site online. The majority of web hosting providers give complete server root access, in other words you can activate any software platforms on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Specific script-driven software platforms require server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to function. A lot of e-commerce software scripts, for example, have such a precondition, and gaining complete root-level access to the dedicated server is decisive for administering an online storefront. Other hosting distributors do not give full server root access, but help the customer install the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which comes with root access.

Dedicated Server by 'Mnistrat Hosting'

The content on the dedicated server can be handled either through a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or through a web hosting CP graphical interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of hosting Control Panel graphical user interfaces out there, and usually web hosting companies offer several of them, and with root-level access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web files, databases, emails, access logs and program installations are handled easily through a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Specific hosting Control Panels also comprise a reseller backend panel, so if you settle on a dedicated server, you can not only host your website files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to other clients to generate money. We, at Mnistrat Hosting, provide free-of-charge billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server package of ours, which allows you to launch your very own web hosting corporation and make cash very fast since the web hosting market niche is perpetually increasing.