Dedicated Web Hosting Explained

Free and paid shared packages are one of the most popular hosting solutions on the market. They are excellent for small-scale websites that do not demand a lot of system resources and do not receive that many web site visitors, but for high resource-devouring web pages with many 1000's of visitors, a more advanced platform is necessary. If you demand an advanced, cutting-edge web hosting solution that can cope with even 1 000 000's of daily hits, a dedicated web hosting is your most appropriate option.

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

With the dedicated web hosting solution, you lease an entire server whose resources will be utilized only by your sites. Just like any PC, each dedicated server has one or more processing units operating at a certain speed, a certain amount of RAM, one or more hard disks, and so on. A dedicated web hosting server is indeed a computer with hardware aimed to tackle heavy load and some software installed on it, like a web server, PHP and MySQL software platforms, etc., which allows the sites stored on it to be visible on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Web Hosting Solutions

A dedicated server can be administered either by the web hosting service provider, or by the customer, depending on the concrete dedicated web hosting plan. In either case, the party administering the machine has access to a software tool to restart it at any given moment. Administration is done via a hosting Control Panel user interface that enables you to keep an eye on the services running on the physical machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Web Hosting

There are various server OSs like Windows, FreeBSD, various Linux distributions, etc. Specific hosting companies provide dedicated web hosting using one specific OS, while others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET websites require a Windows web server, for example, and will not operate on another Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML based web sites using MySQL databases will perform on any OS. Prior to leasing a dedicated server, examine what the web hosting vendor provides and what the needs of your website are.

Software Apps for Dedicated Web Hosting

By default, each dedicated server includes all the software apps required to manage a website - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so the moment you obtain the dedicated web server, you can upload your web site files and bring the web site online. The majority of hosting companies give full root access, in other words you can install any software on the dedicated server and change any settings. Specific script-driven platforms need server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to work. Plenty of e-commerce software scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and being supplied with root access to the dedicated server is crucial for developing a web shop. Other web hosting corporations do not offer full root privileges, but help the client install the required software - this is the so-called managed hosting solution, as compared with the unmanaged hosting solution, which offers full server root privileges.

Dedicated Web Hosting by 'Web Host Miami'

The textual, visual and aural content on the dedicated server can be managed either through a Secure Shell (SSH) tunnel or via a Control Panel graphical user interface such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, and so on. There are 10's of web hosting Control Panel GUIs out there, and usually hosting suppliers offer several of them, and with full root access at hand, the client can activate any of them. All web files, databases, mail aliases, access logs and script installations are administered easily through a GUI in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is required. Certain hosting CPs also include a reseller backend tool, so if you choose a dedicated server, you can not simply host your files, but also offer shared hosting plans to other customers to generate money. We, at Web Host Miami, offer charge-free invoicing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated web hosting package of ours, which permits you to set up your own personal hosting firm and earn cash in no time as the web hosting business is perpetually flowering.