Dedicated Hosting Unmasked

Free and paid shared plans are among the most popular web hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are suitable for small websites that do not demand lots of resources and do not get that many web site visitors, but for resource-requiring websites with many thousands of web site visitors, a more powerful solution is required. If you would like to have a reliable, top-drawer hosting platform that can cope with even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your best alternative.

Tackle the Load Created by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated web server hosting service, you rent an entire physical machine whose system resources will be used solely by your web sites. Just like any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more CPUs functioning at a particular speed, some amount of memory, one or more disk drives, and so on. A server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration designed to tackle heavy load and specific software installed on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the websites accommodated on it to be accessible on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting distributor, or by the customer, based on the particular dedicated server package. In either instance, the side administering the server has access to a software tool to restart it at any given moment. Management is done through a hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that enables you to keep an eye on the processes running on the physical machine.

OSs for Dedicated Servers

There are different server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Particular web hosts offer dedicated servers utilizing one given Operating System, whereas others offer customers a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET websites require a Windows server, for instance, and will not run on a different Operating System, while PHP and HTML driven websites utilizing MySQL databases will function on any Operating System. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, find out what the web hosting supplier offers and what the needs of your site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software applications needed in order to administer a site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated hosting server, you can upload your web files and take the website online. The majority of hosting firms give full server root privileges, in other words you can activate any software apps on the dedicated server and revise any settings. Particular script-based platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to work. Various shopping cart scripts, for example, include such a requirement, and being provided with full server root access to the dedicated server is decisive for administering a web storefront. Other hosting companies do not offer complete root-level access, but help the customer install the required software platforms - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged hosting service, which includes full root access.

Dedicated Server by 'Tripplehost'

The website files on the dedicated server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or through a hosting Control Panel user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of CP user interfaces available, and usually web hosting suppliers offer several of them, and with full server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All files, databases, email box accounts, access logs and program installations are managed easily through a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Specific web hosting Control Panels also have a reseller back office panel, so if you purchase a dedicated server, you can not only host your website files, but also offer shared hosting packages to other clients to generate cash. We, at Tripplehost, offer cost-free billing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated server package of ours, which enables you to begin your own web hosting corporation and generate money very fast as the web hosting business niche is incessantly evolving.