Dedicated Server Web Hosting Explained

Free and paid shared plans are among the most widespread website hosting products on the marketplace. They are perfect for small sites that do not need lots of resources and do not draw that many website visitors, but for large web pages with many 1000's of web site visitors, a more advanced platform is needed. If you want a robust, first-class shared web hosting platform that can cope with even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated server web hosting is your most excellent option.

Tackle the Intense Load Generated by Your Sites with a Dedicated Web Hosting Server

With the dedicated server hosting solution, you lease an entire physical machine whose resources will be used solely by your web sites. Just like any personal computer, each dedicated web hosting server has one or more microprocessors functioning at a given speed, a specific amount of memory, one or more disk drives, and so on. A dedicated web hosting server is indeed a computer with hardware aimed to tackle intense load and specific software installed on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the sites stored on it to be available online.

Managed Dedicated Servers Web Hosting Services

A dedicated web hosting server can be managed either by the hosting service provider, or by the customer, on the basis of the specific dedicated server web hosting package. In either situation, the side administering the server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any given time. Management is carried out via a web hosting Control Panel interface that permits you to keep track of the services running on the server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Server Web Hosting

There are different web hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, various Linux distributions, and so on. Specific hosts offer dedicated server web hosting utilizing one specific Operating System, while others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites need a Windows server, for example, and will not run on a different OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven websites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Prior to renting a dedicated web hosting server, learn what the web hosting service provider offers and what the needs of your website are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Server Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated web hosting server comes with all the software applications required in order to administer a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you get the dedicated machine, you can upload your website files and bring the web site online. The majority of web hosting suppliers grant complete server root access, in other words you can install any software platforms on the dedicated web hosting server and modify any settings. Specific script-driven platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-activated in order for them to work. Many shopping cart scripts, for instance, include such a requirement, and being granted complete root-level access to the dedicated web hosting server is essential for launching an online store. Other web hosting providers do not grant root-level access, but help the client activate the required software applications - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as compared to the unmanaged hosting service, which includes complete root access.

Dedicated Server Web Hosting by 'Bald Guy Hosting'

The content on the dedicated web hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or via a web hosting Control Panel tool like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of CP GUIs out there, and normally providers offer a few of them, and with complete root access at hand, the client can install any of them. All files, databases, mailbox aliases, access logs and program installations are administered easily through a graphical user interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Specific web hosting CPs also have a reseller back office tool, so if you select a dedicated web hosting server, you can not only host your web site files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to other people to gain revenue. We, at Bald Guy Hosting, offer free-of-charge billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server web hosting package of ours, which permits you to constitute your very own hosting company and generate revenue very fast as the hosting business is constantly expanding.