What are Dedicated Servers?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most widely used website hosting solutions on the market. They are good for small-size websites that do not demand plenty of system resources and do not have that many website visitors, but for heavy resource-swallowing websites with many thousands of visitors, a more powerful platform is needed. If you are looking for a stable, top-notch hosting platform that can cope with even millions of everyday hits, a dedicated package is your most suitable choice.

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

With the dedicated hosting service, you lease an entire web hosting server whose system resources will be used solely by your websites. Just like any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processing units functioning at a certain speed, a given amount of memory, one or more hard drives, etc. A web server is indeed a computer with hardware meant to tackle high load and certain software installed on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the sites hosted on it to be available on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the hosting supplier, or by the customer, based on the concrete dedicated package plan. In either case, the side handling the dedicated web server has access to a software tool to reboot it at any specific moment. Administration is done through a Control Panel graphical interface that enables you to keep track of the services running on the dedicated machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Packages

There are different web server Operating Systems like Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, and so on. Specific hosting providers provide dedicated packages running one specific OS, while others offer clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites need a Windows web server, for instance, and will not operate on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites utilizing MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, check what the hosting company provides and what the necessities of your web site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Packages

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software apps required in order to manage a site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so the moment you obtain the dedicated web server, you can upload your files and take the web site online. Most hosting suppliers provide full root access, i.e. you can activate any software applications on the dedicated server and update any settings. Given script-powered software platforms require server-side libraries that should be pre-installed in order for them to operate. Lots of e-commerce scripts, for example, impose such a requirement, and gaining complete root-level access to the dedicated server is vital for establishing a web storefront. Other web hosting providers do not offer root privileges, but help the client activate the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as compared to the unmanaged hosting service, which comes with full server root access.

Dedicated Package by 'Fiddyhost'

The website files on the dedicated server can be handled either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or through a web hosting CP graphical interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of hosting CP graphical user interfaces in existence, and typically hosting corporations offer a few of them, and with root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All website files, databases, electronic mail accounts, access logs and program installations are managed effortlessly through a graphical interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Some Control Panels also comprise a reseller back office dashboard, so if you settle on a dedicated server, you can not merely host your website files, but also offer shared website hosting plans to other users to earn money. We, at Fiddyhost, provide free-of-cost billing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated package package of ours, which allows you to begin your very own web hosting firm and earn profit very quickly because the hosting market niche is perpetually enlarging.