Description of Dedicated Server Plans

When we talk about hosting servers, there are 3 main types - shared hosting web servers, VPS (virtual private web hosting servers) and dedicated servers. Shared hosting web servers accommodate lots of clients and hence the resources per account are restricted, virtual private server packages offer more configuration autonomy, but also influence other virtual web servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to do everything you wish without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared web servers or virtual web servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your corporation has a heavy resource-requiring web page, or just has very precise web server architecture requirements, the most intelligent choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is willing to invest in safety and dependability, the greater price is not a problem. You have root-level access and can use 100 percent of the dedicated server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and meddling with your websites.

Hardware specs

Most shared hosting suppliers, incl. us at MiniAll, provide different hardware architectures you can choose from on the basis of your needs. The hardware configurations include different types of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM and hard disk sizes and different web traffic usage quotas. You can pick a web hosting Control Panel, which is a useful user interface if you want to utilize the dedicated web server for website hosting purposes only and prefer not to resort to a Secure Shell console for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The Control Panel of your choice

If you are a self-assured Linux OS user (our dedicated hosting web servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server through a Secure Shell tunnel exclusively. That, however, could be awkward, particularly if you decide to give full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical proficiency than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a fine idea. The Hepsia hosting CP software tool that we offer does not include complete server root access and is mainly appropriate for someone who has plenty of web portals that demand lots of system resources, but would like to administer the online portals, databases and mailboxes through a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant root access and include 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell hosting packages instead of utilizing the web hosting server solely for yourself, you should choose one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In case of a problem with your web server, like an unresponsive Apache or an outage, it is desirable to have some sort of monitoring platform enabled. Here at MiniAll the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an extra option - the hosting distributor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 hard drives as a precaution in the event of a hard disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full root-level access erases something by accident.