Dedicated Hosting Plans Description

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most extensively used hosting solutions on the marketplace. They are great for small-sized web portals that do not request plenty of resources and do not have that many web site visitors, but for resource-consuming sites with many 1000's of website visitors, a more powerful platform is necessary. If you want a robust, topflight web hosting solution that can tackle even millions of everyday visits, a dedicated hosting is your most appropriate alternative.

Handle the Load Created by Your Web Sites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web hosting service, you rent a whole physical machine whose resources will be used solely by your sites. Just as any personal computer, each dedicated hosting server has one or more CPUs functioning at a certain speed, a certain amount of memory, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A dedicated web server is in fact a computer with hardware aimed to handle heavy load and given software installed on it, like web server software, PHP and MySQL software, and so on, which permits the sites accommodated on it to be available on the World Wide Web.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Solutions

A dedicated hosting server can be managed either by the web hosting distributor, or by the customer, based on the particular dedicated hosting package. In either case, the side managing the web server has access to a software platform to restart it at any time. Management is carried out through a CP graphical interface that permits you to check the tasks running on the dedicated web hosting server.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Hosting

There are various hosting server OSs such as Windows, FreeBSD, a number of Linux distributions, etc. Some web hosting corporations provide dedicated hosting utilizing one given OS, while others give customers an option. MSSQL databases and .NET web sites request a Windows web server, for instance, and will not operate on another OS, whereas PHP and HTML driven web sites using MySQL databases will function on any Operating System. Before renting a dedicated hosting server, examine what the web hosting service provider offers and what the needs of your site are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software applications required to run a web site - a web server, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, FTP server software and so on, so the moment you get the web server, you can upload your website files and get the web site online. Most web hosting vendors give complete server root access, in other words you can install any software platforms on the dedicated hosting server and change any settings. Some script-driven platforms require server-side apps that should be pre-installed in order for them to operate. Plenty of e-commerce scripts, for example, have such a requirement, and being granted full root access to the dedicated hosting server is decisive for managing a web shop. Other hosting distributors do not grant complete server root access, but help the client activate the necessary software applications - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as differentiated from the unmanaged hosting service, which offers full root-level access.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Extra Hoster'

The web files on the dedicated hosting server can be managed either through a Secure Shell (SSH) session or through a hosting Control Panel interface like cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are tens of Control Panel graphical interfaces out there, and typically hosting vendors offer a few of them, and with full root access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All web site files, databases, e-mail accounts, access logs and program installations are managed easily through a graphical interface in a browser, so no advanced knowledge is necessary. Some web hosting CPs also comprise a reseller back office tool, so if you obtain a dedicated hosting server, you can not only host your files, but also sell shared website hosting plans to other customers to gain profit. We, at Extra Hoster, provide cost-free billing software and a domain reseller account with each and every dedicated hosting plan of ours, which allows you to set up your own web hosting company and make profit in no time as the web hosting market is incessantly growing.