What Precisely are Dedicated Hosting Servers?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most famous hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are OK for small web portals that do not request a lot of system resources and do not attract that many visitors, but for resource-demanding sites with many thousands of website visitors, a more advanced solution is required. If you are seeking a solid, hi-end web hosting platform that can tackle even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated hosting is your perfect choice.

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

With the dedicated server web hosting service, you rent a whole machine whose system resources will be used solely by your sites. Just like any computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more processors running at a specific speed, some amount of memory, one or more hard disks, etc. A hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration intended to handle high load and specific software activated on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which permits the web sites accommodated on it to be reachable on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be administered either by the hosting supplier, or by the customer, on the basis of the specific dedicated hosting plan. In either case, the side administering the dedicated web hosting server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any given time. Management is carried out through a web hosting Control Panel user interface that permits you to check the services running on the hosting server.

OSs for Dedicated Hosting

There are various web hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, and so on. Certain hosting suppliers offer dedicated hosting utilizing one given OS, while others offer clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites necessitate a Windows web server, for instance, and will not function on a different OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will function on any Operating System. Before renting a dedicated hosting server, examine what the hosting firm offers and what the requirements of your web site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software applications needed to run a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so once you obtain the dedicated server, you can upload your web site files and take the website online. The majority of web hosting providers offer complete root-level access, i.e. you can install any software applications on the dedicated hosting server and alter any settings. Some script-powered platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-activated in order for them to work. Many shopping cart software scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and being granted complete root access to the dedicated hosting server is vital for making an online store. Other hosts do not provide root privileges, but help the customer activate the needed software applications - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting service, which comes with full root privileges.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Visualis Web Hosting'

The textual, visual and aural content on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or via a web hosting CP GUI such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of CP GUIs available, and normally hosting firms offer several of them, and with full server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All files, databases, mail addresses, access logs and script installations are managed easily via a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Some web hosting Control Panels also include a reseller back office panel, so if you buy a dedicated hosting server, you can not simply host your web site files, but also sell shared hosting plans to other customers to generate money. We, at Visualis Web Hosting, provide free-of-charge billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated hosting plan of ours, which permits you to launch your own web hosting company and earn profit very fast since the web hosting market niche is incessantly evolving.