What In Fact is Dedicated Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most widely used hosting solutions on the market. They are excellent for small-sized sites that do not request plenty of system resources and do not draw that many website visitors, but for heavy resource-requiring web sites with many 1000's of website visitors, a more powerful solution is necessary. If you need a solid, top-class shared hosting platform that can deal with even millions of daily visits, a dedicated hosting is your most appropriate choice.

Tackle the Heavy Load Created by Your Sites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web server hosting solution, you rent an entire web server whose resources will be utilized solely by your sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated hosting server has one or more central processing units running at a given speed, a given amount of RAM, one or more hard drives, etc. A dedicated web server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration designed to tackle intense load and specific software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software, etc., which allows the sites stored on it to be visible on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated hosting server can be managed either by the hosting distributor, or by the client, based on the specific dedicated hosting plan. In either case, the side handling the dedicated hosting server has access to a software tool to reboot it at any particular moment. Administration is done via a web hosting Control Panel graphical interface that permits you to keep track of the services running on the hosting server.

OSs for Dedicated Hosting

There are various hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, different Linux distributions, etc. Some hosting distributors offer dedicated hosting running one particular Operating System, whereas others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites request a Windows web server, for instance, and will not operate on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven websites using MySQL databases will work on any OS. Prior to renting a dedicated hosting server, discover what the hosting supplier provides and what the needs of your web site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server offers all the software applications needed to administer a web site - a web server, 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 bring the site online. Most web hosting firms provide full root access, i.e. you can activate any software apps on the dedicated hosting server and modify any settings. Some script-driven platforms require server-side libraries that should be pre-activated in order for them to function. A lot of shopping cart software scripts, for instance, involve such a requirement, and being granted full server root access to the dedicated hosting server is key for setting up a web storefront. Other web hosting service providers do not provide full server root access, but help the customer install the needed software - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as distinguished from the unmanaged web hosting solution, which includes complete root-level access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'ItsOkay Hosting'

The files on the dedicated hosting server can be administered either via a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or via a Control Panel graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are tens of Control Panel interfaces out there, and usually hosting companies offer a few of them, and with complete server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All website files, databases, mailbox aliases, access logs and program installations are handled effortlessly through a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Given Control Panels also have a reseller backend panel, so if you pick a dedicated hosting server, you can not simply host your web site files, but also sell shared hosting packages to other people to generate profit. We, at ItsOkay Hosting, provide free-of-cost invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated hosting plan of ours, which allows you to found your very own web hosting corporation and gain profit in no time because the hosting market niche is incessantly growing.