How Do Dedicated Servers Work?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most widely used website hosting products on the marketplace. They are splendid for small web pages that do not demand plenty of resources and do not attract that many visitors, but for high resource-consuming web portals with many 1000's of visitors, a more advanced platform is required. If you would like to have a powerful, top-notch shared hosting solution that can cope with even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your best option.

Tackle the Heavy Load Generated by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated hosting solution, you rent a whole server whose resources will be utilized only by your sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated server has one or more central processing units operating at a given speed, a given amount of RAM, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A web server is actually a computer with hardware intended to cope with high load and certain software installed on it, such as a web server, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the web sites stored on it to be reachable on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Servers Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be managed either by the hosting vendor, or by the customer, based on the given dedicated server plan. In either situation, the side administering the dedicated machine has access to a software platform to reboot it at any particular moment. Management is carried out via a CP graphical interface that allows you to keep an eye on the processes running on the dedicated machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Certain hosts provide dedicated servers using one given OS, while others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET sites demand a Windows web server, for instance, and will not function on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will work on any Operating System. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, check what the provider offers and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software required in order to administer a website - 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 web server, you can upload your files and take the site online. Most providers offer root-level access, in other words you can install any software applications on the dedicated server and change any settings. Given script-powered platforms need server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to run. Various shopping cart scripts, for instance, impose such a precondition, and being supplied with complete server root access to the dedicated server is decisive for managing an online shop. Other web hosting service providers do not offer root-level access, but help the client install the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting service, which includes full root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'Clarion Hosting'

The web content on the dedicated server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) session or through a web hosting CP graphical interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of web hosting Control Panel tools available, and normally web hosting vendors provide a number of them, and with complete root-level access at hand, the client can install any of them. All web site files, databases, e-mail accounts, access logs and program installations are managed easily through a GUI in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Some web hosting Control Panels also include a reseller back office panel, so if you choose a dedicated server, you can not only host your files, but also sell shared hosting plans to other persons to earn cash. We, at Clarion Hosting, provide free-of-cost invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server plan of ours, which permits you to constitute your very own personal web hosting firm and make money in no time since the hosting market is perpetually enlarging.