How Does Dedicated Hosting Function?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most widely used website hosting products on the marketplace. They are perfect for small web portals that do not require plenty of resources and do not draw that many website visitors, but for heavy resource-swallowing web sites with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced platform is required. If you require a dependable, leading-edge web hosting solution that can handle even millions of daily hits, a dedicated hosting is your finest option.

Handle the Intense Load Caused by Your Sites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated server web hosting solution, you lease an entire physical machine whose system resources will be utilized solely by your web sites. Just like any personal computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more processors operating at a particular speed, a given amount of RAM memory, one or more disk drives, and so on. A hosting server is in fact a computer with hardware meant to handle heavy load and some software activated on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which permits the websites stored on it to be visible on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated hosting server can be administered either by the web hosting corporation, or by the client, based on the given dedicated hosting plan. In either instance, the side administering the dedicated server has access to a software platform to restart it at any time. Administration is carried out via a CP user interface that permits you to keep an eye on the tasks running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Hosting

There are different hosting server Operating Systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, and so on. Some hosting firms provide dedicated hosting using one specific OS, whereas others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites demand a Windows web server, for instance, and will not perform on another OS, whereas PHP and HTML based websites using MySQL databases will perform on any OS. Before renting a dedicated hosting server, find out what the hosting supplier offers and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server offers all the software platforms required in order to manage a web site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you get the dedicated machine, you can upload your web files and take the site online. Most hosts offer full root privileges, i.e. you can activate any software on the dedicated hosting server and alter any settings. Given script-based software platforms require server-side applications that should be pre-activated in order for them to work. A lot of shopping cart software scripts, for example, include such a requirement, and being supplied with complete root access to the dedicated hosting server is critical for managing a web store. Other web hosting distributors do not offer complete root access, but help the client activate the required software apps - this is the so-called managed web hosting service, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting service, which comes with root-level access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'intellifi'

The web site files on the dedicated hosting server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) session or through a Control Panel interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of web hosting Control Panel graphical user interfaces in existence, and usually hosting companies offer several of them, and with full server root access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All files, databases, email accounts, access logs and program installations are managed easily via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Particular hosting CPs also include a reseller back office panel, so if you get a dedicated hosting server, you can not simply host your files, but also sell shared website hosting packages to other clients to gain revenue. We, at intellifi, provide free billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated hosting plan of ours, which permits you to set up your very own personal web hosting company and gain revenue very fast as the hosting business niche is incessantly thriving.