How Dedicated Web Hosting Servers Work

Free and paid shared plans are among the most widely used website hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are great for small-size online portals that do not require lots of system resources and do not attract that many web site visitors, but for heavy resource-absorbing online portals with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced platform is required. If you are seeking a robust, top-quality website hosting platform that can handle even 1 000 000's of daily visits, a dedicated web hosting is your most appropriate choice.

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

With the dedicated solution, you lease a whole physical machine whose resources will be used only by your web sites. Just like any PC, each dedicated web hosting server has one or more central processing units running at a specific speed, some amount of memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A hosting server is in fact a computer with hardware intended to cope with high load and specific software installed on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, etc., which allows the web sites stored on it to be accessible on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Web Hosting Solutions

A dedicated web hosting server can be managed either by the hosting vendor, or by the client, based on the specific dedicated web hosting package. In either case, the party handling the web server has access to a software tool to restart it at any particular time. Management is carried out through a hosting CP graphical user interface that allows you to supervise the services running on the hosting server.

OSs for Dedicated Web Hosting

There are different web hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, and so on. Particular web hosts provide dedicated web hosting using one particular Operating System, while others offer customers a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET websites need a Windows server, for instance, and will not operate on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated web hosting server, examine what the hosting provider offers and what the needs of your site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated web hosting server comes with all the software applications needed in order to run a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you obtain the web server, you can upload your files and take the site online. The majority of hosting corporations offer complete server root access, in other words you can install any software apps on the dedicated web hosting server and update any settings. Some script-based software platforms need server-side libraries that should be pre-installed in order for them to perform. Various e-commerce software scripts, for example, have such a precondition, and being offered root access to the dedicated web hosting server is key for launching a web store. Other web hosts do not give full server root privileges, but help the client install the necessary software - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting service, which comes with full root privileges.

Dedicated Web Hosting by 'Online01'

The web content on the dedicated web hosting server can be handled either via a Secure Shell (SSH) console or through a web hosting CP interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of hosting Control Panel tools out there, and usually hosting corporations provide a few of them, and with full root-level access at hand, the client can install any of them. All web site files, databases, e-mail aliases, access logs and program installations are handled easily through a graphical user interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Some web hosting Control Panels also have a reseller backend console, so if you purchase a dedicated web hosting server, you can not simply host your files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to different users to earn revenue. We, at Online01, offer charge-free billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated web hosting plan of ours, which permits you to start your own web hosting firm and earn cash very fast as the web hosting business is incessantly growing.