The Basics Of Dedicated Server Hosting

What are dedicated servers?

A dedicated server is a type of hosting service offered by a web hosting company that is solely and exclusively for the use of a single client. These servers are physical devices whose resources are not shared to other users.
The client leasing a has full control of its usage, and can install software, hardware and applications of their choice, including operating systems. The client also has the privilege to utilize full hard disk space and bandwidth.

When to Choose a Dedicated Server Hosting?

Knowing when to opt for hosting usually is based on how you must cater your website's needs. Before making a choice, know your users and their expectations from your site. Also, evaluate your websites requirements - including performance, speed, traffic, and data handling.

Unlike free and shared hosting, a dedicated server hosting provides better performance, security, reliability, control and flexibility for its end user.

A free hosting is a good option for people running small, for-fun only websites that do not necessarily require huge space for data. Also, this kind of hosting usually is ads-supported and has quite some limitations with usage. Hence, if you are a corporate site, or a business, you might want to choose another hosting option.

Shared hosting on the other hand, could serve as a better alternative to free hosting. Although not free, it is comparably cheaper since all the resources for your hosting are shared to other websites as well. This includes bandwidth, IP, and other software and hardware applications within that server. Therefore, the cost for the hosting is also shared with your co-users.

However, if one or more co-users in the server use up more of the shared resources or receive heavy daily traffic, it is to be expected that your site will experience slow performance, frequent crashes, system overload and downtimes.

Advantages of Dedicated Servers

Again, dedicated servers offer better security, reliability flexibility and control. Why is that so? Here are some of the reasons:

Security

Dedicated servers have their own firewalls and are capable of becoming password protected. It makes all hosted data less vulnerable from malicious codes, script injections and hacker attacks. Compared to shared resources, no one else has access to your entire server hence nobody can jeopardize your security internally.

Reliability

In a dedicated server hosting, no one else will utilize your memory space and bandwidth other that you. Hence, you will not worry about other applications' and sites' traffic, requests, and consequently, you wont have to worry about speed and response time.

Flexibility and Control

In a dedicated server hosting, you are in control of everything. You get to install the operating system of your choice, install scripts and apps, customize programs and hardware installed; you get a choice of control panels, configure your server to cater your needs, among others.
Indeed, this offer a bundle of benefits that are not made available to other hosting types. But given all these privileges, it is generally to be expected that this plan is comparably more expensive than the others. In the end, it boils down to assessing what your needs are and the best way to cater them in consideration of time and resources.