What Does Dedicated Hosting Signify?

Free and paid shared plans are among the most popular website hosting solutions on the market. They are excellent for small-sized web sites that do not necessitate a lot of system resources and do not receive that many website visitors, but for resource-requiring sites with many 1000's of visitors, a more advanced solution is necessary. If you need a robust, top-class hosting platform that can deal with even millions of everyday hits, a dedicated server is your most appropriate choice.

Handle the Load Generated by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated solution, you rent an entire hosting server whose resources will be used solely by your web sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated server has one or more central processing units running at a particular speed, a given amount of RAM, one or more hard drives, etc. A web hosting server is actually a computer with hardware meant to tackle high load and specific software activated on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which allows the sites stored on it to be available on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web hosting service provider, or by the customer, based on the particular dedicated server package. In either instance, the side administering the dedicated machine has access to a software platform to reboot it at any given moment. Administration is done through a hosting CP interface that allows you to keep an eye on the processes running on the hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various web hosting server Operating Systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, an array of Linux distributions, and so on. Some web hosting corporations offer dedicated servers running one given Operating System, whereas others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET websites demand a Windows server, for instance, and will not function on a different OS, while PHP and HTML based websites using MySQL databases will operate on any Operating System. Before renting a dedicated server, learn what the hosting distributor offers and what the requirements of your web site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software applications needed in order to run a website - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so once you get the web hosting server, you can upload your files and get the website online. The majority of providers offer root privileges, i.e. you can activate any software on the dedicated server and modify any settings. Specific script-powered platforms require server-side applications that should be pre-activated in order for them to run. A lot of shopping cart software scripts, for instance, have such a precondition, and having root access to the dedicated server is vital for having a web store. Other hosting service providers do not grant root privileges, but help the client activate the needed software applications - this is the so-called managed web hosting solution, as distinguished from the unmanaged hosting solution, which includes complete root access.

Dedicated Server by 'Hosting United Kingdom'

The web site files on the dedicated server can be managed either via a Secure Shell (SSH) connection or through a hosting CP user interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of hosting CP graphical user interfaces available, and normally hosting distributors provide a couple of them, and with full root access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All web files, databases, e-mail addresses, access logs and program installations are handled easily via a graphical user interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Certain hosting Control Panels also include a reseller backend panel, so if you obtain a dedicated server, you can not simply host your web files, but also offer shared website hosting plans to other clients to earn profit. We, at Hosting United Kingdom, offer free-of-cost billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated server plan of ours, which allows you to start your own personal web hosting corporation and make cash very fast because the hosting market is constantly thriving.