Dedicated Hosting Clarified

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most popular website hosting solutions on the market. They are appropriate for small-sized sites that do not demand a lot of resources and do not attract that many viewers, but for high resource-demanding online portals with many thousands of visitors, a more advanced platform is necessary. If you would like to have a solid, leading-edge hosting solution that can tackle even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your most excellent choice.

Handle the Load Caused by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting solution, you rent an entire physical server whose resources will be used only by your web sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated server has one or more processing units running at a specific speed, a given amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disk drives, and so on. A web hosting server is in fact a computer with a hardware configuration aimed to tackle heavy load and specific software activated on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the websites stored on it to be reachable on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the host, or by the customer, on the basis of the specific dedicated server plan. In either instance, the party managing the machine has access to a software platform to reboot it at any specific moment. Administration is carried out through a web hosting Control Panel graphical interface that enables you to supervise the processes running on the hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are different web hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, etc. Certain hosting firms offer dedicated servers utilizing one given Operating System, while others give customers a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites need a Windows server, for example, and will not work on a different OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, learn what the web hosting supplier offers and what the requirements of your website are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software applications required to administer a website - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you get the dedicated server, you can upload your web files and get the site online. Most hosting distributors give complete server root access, i.e. you can activate any software on the dedicated server and revise any settings. Some script-powered platforms need server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to function. Various e-commerce scripts, for instance, involve such a requirement, and having full server root access to the dedicated server is decisive for managing a web shop. Other web hosts do not provide root access, but help the client install the necessary software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as compared to the unmanaged web hosting service, which offers root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'Real Tech Hosting'

The web site files on the dedicated server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or via a hosting Control Panel interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of CP tools in existence, and usually web hosting suppliers provide a couple of them, and with full root access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All web files, databases, email mailbox accounts, access logs and program installations are managed easily via a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Given hosting CPs also include a reseller back office panel, so if you have a dedicated server, you can not merely host your website files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to other individuals to gain revenue. We, at Real Tech Hosting, offer free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server package of ours, which allows you to start your own web hosting corporation and earn money very fast because the web hosting market is incessantly developing.