What Precisely is Dedicated Servers Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most famous web 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-consuming web portals with many 1000's of visitors, a more advanced solution is needed. If you are seeking an advanced, first-class shared hosting solution that can handle even 1 000 000's of daily visits, a dedicated server is your finest choice.

Handle the High Load Created by Your Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated hosting solution, you rent a whole hosting server whose system resources will be used only by your web sites. Just like any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processors functioning at a specific speed, a certain amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disks, and so on. A hosting server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration designed to cope with heavy load and some software activated on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the websites stored on it to be visible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web hosting service provider, or by the customer, on the basis of the particular dedicated server package. In either situation, the side administering the dedicated hosting server has access to a software platform to restart it at any particular time. Administration is done via a web hosting Control Panel graphical interface that enables you to keep an eye on the processes running on the web hosting server.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are different web server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, an array of Linux distributions, and so on. Certain hosting distributors offer dedicated servers utilizing one particular OS, while others give clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows web server, for instance, and will not run on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will operate on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated server, check what the host provides and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server includes all the software applications required in order to administer a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated server, you can upload your files and get the website online. Most hosts give complete root access, in other words you can activate any software applications on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Some script-based software platforms need server-side libraries that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Plenty of shopping cart software scripts, for instance, impose such a requirement, and gaining complete root-level access to the dedicated server is essential for launching a web shop. Other web hosting suppliers do not offer complete root access, but help the client activate the necessary software - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as compared with the unmanaged hosting service, which offers complete root access.

Dedicated Server by 'HMAHost'

The website files on the dedicated server can be handled either via a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or via a CP user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of web hosting CP GUIs in existence, and usually web hosting service providers offer a few of them, and with full root-level access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web site files, databases, e-mail aliases, access logs and script installations are administered easily through a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Certain hosting CPs also have a reseller back office console, so if you buy a dedicated server, you can not just host your files, but also offer shared website hosting plans to different individuals to earn revenue. We, at HMAHost, offer free-of-charge invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which permits you to set up your own hosting company and generate revenue very quickly because the web hosting business niche is incessantly evolving.