Corporate websites, social networks and video sharing websites are very famous and highly visited sites that request a lot of resources to function. The more viewers a site accommodates concurrently, the more system resources will be required to handle all the requests from the customers' browsers and to fulfill them. This is why a dedicated hosting server would be the optimum web hosting solution for such sites.
Buying a dedicated server denotes that you have an entire physical machine for your needs. As opposed to the hosting service or the Virtual Private Server platform where you share a physical machine with a specific number of other customers, with a dedicated web server you can utilize all the system resources for your web portals' demands.
There are various web server configurations that you can purchase. They differ in terms of the hardware features they are offering - processors, RAM amounts, hard disk drives, NICs, but they may also impose a monthly bandwidth limit. For a highly visited web portal, or if you would like to host a handful of sites on a single server, you may consider a more powerful architecture.
Normally, the web site hosting distributors supply various configurations to answer the needs of their customers - from a small server for one site to a very powerful architecture that can manage very popular portals and thousands of visitors at any time. The CPU and server storage quotas and the database connections can be confined only by the server hardware itself.
One notable advantage of the dedicated hosting server over a shared webspace hosting package is that you are given full root privileges, so you can install any software that you want. Certain electronic commerce shopping cart scripts, for example, need extra software that cannot be installed on a shared web server as it would affect all the users on it. With a dedicated hosting server, you have full liberty to install anything. You can administer the web server either by utilizing the Secure Shell network protocol, or through a web hosting Control Panel GUI. Here, you have an option again. You can use a hosting Control Panel supplied by the webspace hosting company, or you can activate your own one. Some well-known website hosting Control Panel user interfaces are cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin and H-Sphere. Some companies such as NTC Hosting, for instance, have their own web space hosting CP, which is fabricated on the basis of client suggestions and provides multi-domain web hosting support. Certain web page hosting CP interfaces are license-free (Hepsia), while others (cPanel) ask for a monthly licence tax to utilize them.
Along with the option to host your own domain names, a dedicated hosting server gives you the opportunity to set up your own personal hosting company and to sell website hosting plans to other people. Numerous website hosting Control Panel GUIs involve a web hosting reseller admin software supplement, so if you get an invoicing transaction & technical support solution such as WHMCS, AWBS or ClientExec, you can kick off your web hosting business, setting up different web site hosting packages for your future customers. You can also provide technical support to your customers directly, and, since you have full root privileges, you can install software programs on demand, so your customers will be pleased with the service they get.
Some hosting distributors also offer an extra paid administration service, whereby the company's system administrators will help you with any issue that you may encounter with your dedicated hosting server - an OS update, a script installation, a troubleshooting procedure, or any other problem that you may run into.
A dedicated web server is the paramount hosting solution if you seek an avant-garde and stable shared web hosting service without worrying about exceeding any limitations. Whether you will host your own personal sites, or you are a website designer with a lot of customers and demand web space for your work, or you want to gain some good money by reselling the server disk space to others, a dedicated web server will give you the independence that no other webspace hosting environment can.