What is Dedicated Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are among the most famous website hosting products on the marketplace. They are suitable for small-scale online portals that do not require plenty of resources and do not draw that many visitors, but for content-heavy web sites with many thousands of viewers, a more advanced solution is demanded. If you would like to have a robust, hi-end hosting solution that can handle even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your most suitable alternative.

Tackle the High Load Caused by Your Websites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated hosting solution, you lease an entire web hosting server whose resources will be utilized only by your web sites. Just like any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processors running at a specific speed, a particular amount of RAM, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration meant to tackle intense load and certain software installed on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which allows the websites accommodated on it to be available online.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web host, or by the customer, on the basis of the specific dedicated server plan. In either situation, the party handling the web server has access to a software tool to restart it at any given time. Administration is carried out via a hosting Control Panel graphical user interface that allows you to keep track of the processes running on the machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, etc. Certain web hosting companies offer dedicated servers utilizing one specific OS, while others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET sites request a Windows web server, for instance, and will not run on another Operating System, while PHP and HTML driven sites using MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Before renting a dedicated server, learn what the web hosting vendor provides and what the necessities of your website are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server includes all the software apps needed in order to manage a site - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated machine, you can upload your files and get the site online. Most web hosting firms grant full root access, i.e. you can install any software platforms on the dedicated server and revise any settings. Some script-powered platforms require server-side applications that should be pre-activated in order for them to work. Various shopping cart scripts, for example, involve such a requirement, and being supplied with full root-level access to the dedicated server is crucial for making a web storefront. Other hosting corporations do not grant root-level access, but help the customer activate the necessary software - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as differentiated from the unmanaged hosting service, which includes full root-level access.

Dedicated Server by 'Axon Inc. Hosting Service'

The web files on the dedicated server can be administered either through a Secure Shell (SSH) session or through a web hosting Control Panel graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of web hosting Control Panel graphical user interfaces in existence, and normally web hosting firms provide a number of them, and with full server root access at hand, the customer can install any of them. All web site files, databases, mailbox aliases, access logs and program installations are handled easily via a graphical interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Specific web hosting CPs also include a reseller backend panel, so if you obtain a dedicated server, you can not merely host your files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to different persons to make profit. We, at Axon Inc. Hosting Service, provide free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server package of ours, which permits you to found your very own personal hosting company and earn revenue in no time since the web hosting business is incessantly developing.