How Dedicated Servers Function

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most extensively used web hosting products on the marketplace. They are good for small-scale online portals that do not request plenty of resources and do not have that many web site visitors, but for resource-swallowing online portals with many 1000's of web site visitors, a more advanced solution is needed. If you are searching for a stable, cutting-edge hosting solution that can cope with even 1 000 000's of everyday visits, a dedicated server is your finest choice.

Handle the Load Caused by Your Sites with a Dedicated Server

With the dedicated server web hosting solution, you lease a whole physical machine whose resources will be utilized solely by your sites. Just as any computer, each dedicated server has one or more processing units running at a given speed, a particular amount of RAM, one or more hard drives, and so on. A web hosting server is indeed a computer with a hardware configuration meant to cope with intense load and specific software installed on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, etc., which permits the sites hosted on it to be visible on the web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web host, or by the customer, depending on the given dedicated server package. In either situation, the party managing the dedicated web server has access to a software platform to reboot it at any specific time. Management is carried out via a web hosting CP user interface that permits you to keep an eye on the tasks running on the dedicated machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Servers

There are various server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, and so on. Given web hosting corporations offer dedicated servers utilizing one particular Operating System, while others give customers an alternative. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites necessitate a Windows web server, for example, and will not perform on another Operating System, while PHP and HTML based websites using MySQL databases will function on any Operating System. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, check what the hosting distributor offers and what the needs of your site are.

Software Applications for Dedicated Servers

By default, each dedicated server comes with all the software applications required to administer a site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so as soon as you obtain the dedicated web server, you can upload your website files and bring the web site online. Most hosting distributors offer full root access, in other words you can install any software applications on the dedicated server and update any settings. Some script-driven platforms require server-side apps that should be pre-activated in order for them to function. Lots of shopping cart scripts, for example, include such a requirement, and being bestowed with complete server root access to the dedicated server is vital for making a web shop. Other web hosting vendors do not give full server root access, but help the client install the required software applications - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as distinguished from the unmanaged hosting service, which includes full root privileges.

Dedicated Server by 'DNMark.com'

The files on the dedicated server can be handled either through a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal or through a hosting Control Panel graphical interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are tens of web hosting Control Panel tools in existence, and usually web hosting providers offer a couple of them, and with root access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All web files, databases, e-mailboxes, access logs and program installations are handled easily via a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Specific hosting Control Panels also have a reseller backend console, so if you settle on a dedicated server, you can not only host your web site files, but also offer shared website hosting packages to other people to generate revenue. We, at DNMark.com, provide free-of-cost billing software and a domain reseller account with every dedicated server package of ours, which enables you to launch your own personal hosting company and generate profit in no time as the hosting business is perpetually flowering.