Dedicated Hosting Description

When we talk about web hosting servers, there are 3 principal sorts - shared web hosting servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared web servers host plenty of customers and thus the system resources per account are restricted, virtual private server plans give you more configuration autonomy, but also affect other virtual servers on the hardware node if utilized imprudently, and dedicated servers give you the independence to carry out everything you see fit without interfering with anyone else.

Why would you require a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are generally much more high-priced than shared web hosting servers or virtual servers. Why would anyone, then, use them? The reply is quite simple. If your corporation has a high resource-requiring website, or simply has very special web server setup requirements, the most suitable choice is a dedicated server. For somebody who is inclined to invest in safety and reliability, the greater price is of no concern. You acquire root access and can utilize 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else using these system resources and interfering with your web portals.

Hardware specifications

Most web hosting providers, including us at Brandplus, offer several different hardware architectures you can choose from as per your requirements. The hardware configurations include different sorts of processors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different monthly bandwidth allowances. You can choose a web hosting CP, which is a useful interface if you want to utilize the dedicated server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to use a Secure Shell terminal for all the modifications you will be making. We provide three sorts of web hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a self-reliant Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated server via a Secure Shell console only. That, however, could be awkward, even more so if you choose to give access to somebody else who has less technical experience than yourself. That is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a fine idea. The Hepsia Control Panel GUI that we offer does not give you full root-level access and is mostly suitable for somebody who runs lots of online portals that consume a lot of resources, but desires to administer the sites, databases and email boxes through an intuitive hosting Control Panel. The DirectAdmin and cPanel hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant root privileges and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of utilizing the dedicated server just 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 hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, like an unresponsive Apache or a network downtime, it is advisable to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Brandplus the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also an additional option - the hosting supplier offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on two server hard drives as a protective measure in case of a server disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have given full root privileges erases something unintentionally.