What Does Dedicated Hosting Stand for?

Free and paid shared plans are among the most extensively used hosting products on the market. They are perfect for small online portals that do not require a lot of resources and do not have that many viewers, but for resource-devouring web sites with many thousands of website visitors, a more powerful solution is needed. If you are seeking a rock solid, top-quality shared hosting platform that can deal with even millions of everyday hits, a dedicated hosting is your best alternative.

Tackle the High Load Caused by Your Websites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web server hosting solution, you lease a whole server whose system resources will be utilized only by your websites. Just like any PC, each dedicated hosting server has one or more processors functioning at a certain speed, a particular amount of memory, one or more hard drives, and so on. A hosting server is in fact a computer with hardware designed to cope with intense load and certain software activated on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the sites accommodated on it to be available on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be managed either by the web hosting firm, or by the client, on the basis of the particular dedicated hosting package. In either instance, the side administering the dedicated machine has access to a software tool to reboot it at any given time. Administration is done via a hosting CP GUI that allows you to supervise the services running on the physical server.

OSs for Dedicated Hosting

There are various hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Certain hosting corporations offer dedicated hosting utilizing one given OS, while others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows server, for example, and will not work on a different OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will run on any OS. Before leasing a dedicated hosting server, check what the hosting firm offers and what the necessities of your website are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software applications required in order to administer a website - 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 server, you can upload your web site files and get the web site online. Most hosting service providers grant full root-level access, i.e. you can activate any software apps on the dedicated hosting server and modify any settings. Specific script-driven software platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to perform. Different shopping cart software scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and getting complete server root access to the dedicated hosting server is key for administering a web shop. Other web hosts do not provide complete root access, but help the customer activate the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as compared to the unmanaged web hosting service, which includes full root privileges.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Hostaguar'

The web files on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or through a hosting CP graphical interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of web hosting CP user interfaces out there, and usually hosting service providers offer a number of them, and with full root-level access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All files, databases, e-mail box accounts, access logs and script installations are administered effortlessly via a GUI in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Certain CPs also comprise a reseller back office dashboard, so if you purchase a dedicated hosting server, you can not merely host your web files, but also offer shared web hosting plans to other customers to gain profit. We, at Hostaguar, offer charge-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated hosting plan of ours, which permits you to start your own personal hosting firm and generate money in no time as the web hosting business niche is constantly proliferating.