Explanation of Dedicated Hosting Packages

When we speak of hosting servers, there are three basic varieties - shared hosting servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated hosting servers. Shared servers accommodate numerous clients and therefore the resources per web hosting account are restricted, virtual private server accounts give you more server configuration freedom, but also affect other virtual web hosting servers on the hardware node if utilized unwisely, and dedicated servers offer you the possibility to do everything you think fit without intervening with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated hosting server?

Dedicated servers are normally much more high-priced than shared hosting servers or virtual web hosting servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The reply is rather simple. If your corporation has a big site, or simply has very explicit web server configuration requirements, the best option is a dedicated server. For somebody who is ready to invest in security and stability, the higher price is of no concern. You acquire complete server root access and can use 100 percent of the server's resources without anyone else utilizing these resources and interfering with your websites.

Hardware configurations

Most web hosting service providers, incl. us at TNG Web Host, offer several different hardware architectures you can pick from based on your needs. The hardware configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different monthly traffic allowances. You can pick a web hosting CP, which is a useful user interface if you would like to use the dedicated server for website hosting purposes solely and prefer not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We offer 3 kinds of hosting CP software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choosing

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our dedicated web hosting servers are powered by Linux or other Unix-based OSs), you could manage your dedicated server through SSH exclusively. That, though, could be awkward, especially if you decide to give full server root privileges to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a bright idea. The Hepsia Control Panel graphical user interface that we offer does not offer root-level access and is chiefly suitable for someone who has a lot of web pages that demand plenty of system resources, but desires to manage the online portals, databases and mails via an intuitive web hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel web hosting CPs, on the other hand, grant complete root-level access and offer 3 levels of access - root, reseller and user. If you intend to resell web hosting packages rather than using the dedicated hosting server just for yourself, you should pick one of these two.

Web server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated hosting server and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your dedicated hosting web server, such as a non-responsive Apache or an outage, it is advisable to have some kind of monitoring platform enabled. Here at TNG Web Host the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you order a Managed Services upgrade, they monitor the individual services on the dedicated hosting server as well. Backups are also a bonus option - the hosting company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could choose a type of RAID that would allow you to keep the same data on 2 server disk drives as a precaution in case of a hard disk failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something by accident.