How Dedicated Hosting Servers Function

Free and paid shared packages are one of the most famous hosting products on the market. They are splendid for small-size web pages that do not demand a lot of resources and do not receive that many web site visitors, but for high resource-consuming sites with many thousands of web site visitors, a more advanced solution is required. If you are seeking a robust, hi-end web hosting platform that can tackle even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated hosting is your best alternative.

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

With the dedicated server web hosting service, you rent an entire physical server whose resources will be used solely by your web sites. Just as any personal computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more processors operating at a given speed, a given amount of RAM, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A dedicated web hosting server is indeed a computer with hardware intended to cope with high load and certain software activated on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the web sites hosted on it to be reachable on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be administered either by the web hosting distributor, or by the client, depending on the concrete dedicated hosting plan. In either instance, the side handling the dedicated hosting server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any given moment. Administration is done via a hosting Control Panel graphical interface that enables you to monitor the services running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Hosting

There are various server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Particular web hosts provide dedicated hosting running one given Operating System, whereas others give customers a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET sites necessitate a Windows web server, for example, and will not work on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites utilizing MySQL databases will function on any OS. Before renting a dedicated hosting server, find out what the web hosting provider provides and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software platforms required to administer a site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated web server, you can upload your files and take the web site online. Most web hosting companies grant root privileges, i.e. you can install any software apps on the dedicated hosting server and change any settings. Certain script-driven platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to operate. A lot of e-commerce scripts, for instance, have such a requirement, and being provided with full root-level access to the dedicated hosting server is key for building a web storefront. Other web hosting corporations do not give complete server root access, but help the client install the needed software platforms - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as compared with the unmanaged web hosting service, which offers root privileges.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Visualis Web Hosting'

The web site files on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) console or via a hosting Control Panel interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of web hosting Control Panel GUIs in existence, and typically hosting distributors offer a number of them, and with complete root-level access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All files, databases, e-mail accounts, access logs and program installations are administered easily through a graphical interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Particular Control Panels also have a reseller back office dashboard, so if you pick a dedicated hosting server, you can not only host your website files, but also offer shared hosting plans to different individuals to gain money. We, at Visualis Web Hosting, offer free-of-charge invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated hosting package of ours, which permits you to begin your very own personal hosting corporation and gain profit in no time as the hosting market niche is perpetually enlarging.