Dedicated Web Hosting Explained

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most popular website hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are excellent for small-size websites that do not request a lot of system resources and do not have that many web site visitors, but for heavy resource-devouring online portals with many thousands of visitors, a more advanced solution is required. If you want a steady, cutting-edge web hosting solution that can tackle even 1 000 000's of daily hits, a dedicated web hosting is your most suitable option.

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

With the dedicated hosting service, you lease an entire web hosting server whose system resources will be utilized only by your sites. Just as any personal computer, each dedicated server has one or more processing units functioning at a particular speed, a certain amount of memory, one or more disk drives, etc. A dedicated web server is indeed a computer with hardware aimed to handle heavy load and given software installed on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the websites accommodated on it to be reachable on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Web Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be managed either by the web hosting service provider, or by the client, depending on the given dedicated web hosting plan. In either instance, the side administering the physical server has access to a software tool to restart it at any specific moment. Management is done via a hosting Control Panel graphical interface that permits you to monitor the tasks running on the dedicated machine.

OSs for Dedicated Web Hosting

There are various hosting server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Given web hosting providers provide dedicated web hosting running one specific Operating System, while others offer clients an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites necessitate a Windows server, for example, and will not work on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based websites utilizing MySQL databases will operate on any Operating System. Prior to renting a dedicated server, examine what the web hosting corporation offers and what the requirements of your website are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated server offers all the software apps needed to run a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so once you get the hosting server, you can upload your website files and take the website online. Most hosting firms provide complete root access, i.e. you can activate any software platforms on the dedicated server and alter any settings. Certain script-based platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to perform. A lot of shopping cart software scripts, for example, have such a precondition, and obtaining root-level access to the dedicated server is vital for establishing an online store. Other hosting corporations do not provide complete root access, but help the customer activate the needed software apps - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which offers root-level access.

Dedicated Web Hosting by 'Lifenethost'

The textual, visual and aural content on the dedicated server can be managed either through a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or via a CP tool such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of CP interfaces available, and usually web hosting companies offer several of them, and with complete server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All files, databases, e-mail box accounts, access logs and program installations are administered effortlessly via a graphical interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Some hosting CPs also comprise a reseller backend panel, so if you obtain a dedicated server, you can not simply host your web files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to other persons to generate profit. We, at Lifenethost, provide free-of-cost invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated web hosting plan of ours, which permits you to start your very own web hosting firm and earn money very fast since the hosting market niche is constantly flowering.