Explanation of Dedicated Server Plans

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are three major varieties - shared website hosting web servers, VPS (Virtual Private Servers) and dedicated servers. Shared servers accommodate plenty of clients and hence the system resources per account are restricted, virtual private server accounts offer more server configuration autonomy, but also influence other VPSs on the hardware node if utilized rashly, and dedicated servers offer you the chance to perform everything you like without messing with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers are traditionally much more expensive than shared hosting web servers or VPSs. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is very simple. If your company has a resource-intensive online portal, or just has very special server architecture requirements, the smartest option would be a dedicated server. For someone who is prepared to invest in security and stability, the bigger price is not a problem. You have root privileges and can use 100 percent of the web server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and messing with your websites.

Hardware architectures

Most shared hosting vendors, incl. us at Tehilla Media, provide several hardware architectures you can select from in consonance with your necessities. The hardware configurations offer different types of microprocessors, a different number of cores, different RAM memory and server hard drive sizes and different web traffic allowances. You can select a web hosting Control Panel, which is a convenient software tool if you wish to utilize the dedicated hosting web server for hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to SSH for all the modifications you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The web hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our hosting servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could administer your dedicated server through an SSH connection only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to grant root privileges to somebody else who has less technical skills than yourself. That is why having web hosting Control Panel software pre-activated is an excellent idea. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel interface that we offer does not offer root privileges and is mostly appropriate for someone who owns lots of web portals that devour plenty of resources, but would rather administer the sites, databases and e-mail accounts via an intuitive hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting Control Panels, on the other hand, grant full root access and have three access levels - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages instead of using the web server just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated server and of backing it up. In the event of a problem with your web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or a network downtime, it is good to have some sort of monitoring system enabled. Here at Tehilla Media the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated server as well. Backups are also an additional feature - the web hosting vendor offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would permit you to store the same data on 2 hard drives as a protective measure in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have given access deletes something by mistake.