Web Hosting Guide : Dedicated Server
Here, you will find some basic information about "Dedicated Server". Once you read this guide, you can refer to our featured Dedicated Server offers to select a provider for your site.
Dedicated Server FAQ:
What is a Dedicated Server?
Dedicated server is a server devoted solely to your web site or business. Dedicated server is not shared with other customers, as with shared hosting.
Why should I choose a Dedicated Server Hosting?
If you have enterprise-level web sites and you need high performance, reliability and greater security you should consider dedicated sever hosting. Therefore, it is better to have dedicated server for e-commerce sites, dynamic content sites, multimedia and database applications and high volume sites.
Why shouldn not I choose Dedicated Server Hosting?
Dedicated servers are powerful, but they are also expensive. If your site doesn't require huge resources, you had better not choose dedicated hosting.
What kind of advantages Dedicated Servers have?
Dedicated servers offers many advantages:
- It is not necessary to purchase your own equipment.
- Better web site performance.
- It's not possible for your web sites to be affected by other web sites on the same box, as in shared hosting.
What kind of disadvantages Dedicated Servers have?
Dedicated servers have some disadvantages:
- The cost is very high when compared with shared hosting.
- The web hosting provider also charges monthly fees for the hardware of the web server. In the short run dedicated server is cheaper than co-location but it is more expensive over time.
- Despite the huge sum paid for, the server is the property of the web hosting provider and you only own the data stored on it.
- You cannot pick up your server and walk away like co-location, if you are not happy with the service.
What's the main difference between Co-location and Dedicated Server?
A Dedicated Server is rent from a web host. You can customize your server according to your needs with remote access. The owner of the server is the web host. On the other hand, co-location means your own server stored at a facility of a co-location hosting provider which provides you the Internet connection and allows physical access to the server when you need it.
When should I make the decision to switch to a Dedicated Server?
- If Programs need to be accessed by the system administrator
- If you need a backup server
- If you need multiple IP addresses
- If daily data transfer becomes more than the server can handle
- If you need high storage capacity
- If you need to run third party software
What's the main difference between unmanaged and managed Dedicated Hosting?
Some customers prefer to have their web hosting provider monitor and maintain their dedicated servers, applications and operating system. For such requests managed dedicated hosting is the solution. This is commonly selected by individuals or companies who do not have the required system administration resources. For those who have experience and knowledge to manage and maintain their dedicated servers, unmanaged dedicated hosting is better and cheaper solution.
When searching for a Dedicated Hosting, What should be the main concerns?
First, you need to decide whether or not your web site is large enough to make all the expenses worthwhile. Apart from that:
- The cost
- Data and equipment security
- Availability of Bandwith
- Web hosting provider's knowledge and integrity
- Web hosting provider's technical support
- Uptime guarantee
- Maintenance of the hardware
What about the hardware guarantee provided by web host?
Web hosts do this in many ways. Ideally, the hosting provider will have spare parts of the web server and solve the most common problems. It is important that the hosting provider is able to procure replacement parts quickly if there are components that are not carried on hand, so that your server is not down for too long.
Before I sign up, what should I ask to a Dedicated Hosting Provider?
Some questions you might ask to a dedicated hosting provider are:
- What brand of peripherals and computers do you use?
- Do you have spare parts and can you fix problems immediately?
- What are the hardware specs (CPU, drive, memory, etc.)?
- What is your connection to the Internet?
- What kind of management methods do you offer for the server?
- What kind of backup options do you offer for saving the data?
Glossary of terms:
Co-location
In a general sense, co-location means to move or place things together, not necessarily implying in a proper order. However, on the Internet, it is used to refer to the space provided on the premises of the service provider for customers' telecommunication equipments. e.g. a site owner could place his or her own server on the ISP's premises that provides co-location hosting services.
IP Address
IP address is a 32-bit number that identifies packets of information that each receiver or sender sent across the Internet.
Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is the type of hosting in which the hosting providers serves multiple web sites on a single web server, each with its own domain name. Shared hosting is provided by most web hosting companies. Although it is a cheap solution for a web presence, shared hosting is not sufficient for web sites with high traffic. It is much better to look for a dedicated server if your web site have such a high traffic.
Uptime
Uptime is a term for the time during which a server is operational and running. Downtime is the opposite term of uptime. Uptime is measured in terms of a percentile. For example, %99.999.
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