What are Dedicated Servers?

Free and paid shared packages are among the most extensively used hosting products on the marketplace. They are perfect for small web sites that do not need plenty of system resources and do not receive that many web site visitors, but for huge websites with many thousands of visitors, a more advanced solution is needed. If you desire a rock steady, no-holds-barred shared hosting solution that can handle even millions of everyday hits, a dedicated server is your finest option.

Tackle the High Load Caused by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting service, you lease an entire hosting server whose system resources will be used solely by your websites. Just like any computer, each dedicated server has one or more microprocessors operating at a given speed, a particular amount of memory, one or more hard disks, and so on. A dedicated hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration intended to tackle intense load and certain software activated on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which allows the sites stored on it to be accessible on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting vendor, or by the client, depending on the specific dedicated server plan. In either situation, the side administering the dedicated web server has access to a software platform to restart it at any given time. Administration is carried out via a Control Panel GUI that allows you to keep track of the services running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various web server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Specific web hosting distributors provide dedicated servers using one specific Operating System, while others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET sites demand a Windows web server, for example, and will not work on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based websites using MySQL databases will perform on any OS. Prior to renting a dedicated server, examine what the web hosting provider provides and what the necessities of your web site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software needed to manage a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated machine, you can upload your website files and take the web site online. The majority of web hosting vendors provide complete root-level access, i.e. you can activate any software on the dedicated server and revise any settings. Some script-driven platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to work. Plenty of e-commerce software scripts, for instance, impose such a precondition, and obtaining root access to the dedicated server is essential for kicking off a web store. Other hosting firms do not provide full root access, but help the client install the required software applications - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as compared to the unmanaged hosting solution, which includes full root-level access.

Dedicated Server by 'izazap'

The content on the dedicated server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or via a hosting CP graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of hosting CP tools in existence, and normally hosting firms provide a couple of them, and with full server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All files, databases, mailbox accounts, access logs and program installations are handled easily through a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Given hosting Control Panels also include a reseller back office console, so if you pick a dedicated server, you can not only host your web files, but also offer shared hosting packages to other users to earn revenue. We, at izazap, offer charge-free billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which enables you to constitute your very own hosting firm and make revenue very fast since the web hosting market is incessantly flowering.