What is web hosting?
Online presence is an integral part of today’s business. Creating an efficient website, which would attract clients by its appearance and functionality as well as high page loading speed and performance, is an important task that will need significant capital and temporal investment, but eventually, pay out with new customers and hence revenues. Such a site will be of great merit to web designers. Still, not only – a significant role in the efficient establishment of your website is play by the quality of the site’s hosting, which in turn depends on the provider and on the type of service you opt for.
Your site is continually operating based on a piece of physical hardware, a server running every day to provide uninterrupted operation of your site. You can own the server on your own, but it’s more common to rent one using the services of one of the numerous hosting providers available on the market. When renting a server, you can opt for different configurations that provide you with different capacities, a complete server or a part of it – depending on the type of hosting service. There are a few available types of hosting services nowadays. Which option to choose depends on how many resources and which level of security you require. We would like to dedicate today’s article to dedicated server hosting.
What is dedicated hosting?
Dedicated web hosting is the hosting option in which you get an entire server at your disposal. The benefit of it is obvious – more capacities, more power. Opting for a dedicated server you get the maximum of the possible server potential. The cost is hence the highest, so even for a casual user of the internet it’s clear that it’s something somebody who needs much computer power and has much money to spend would require. But let’s have a closer look at the advantages of dedicated hosting to make it clear whether it is the solution that suits you personally, and to help you choose between available options.
Advantages of dedicated hosting
The basic advantage of dedicated web hosting is the high performance it provides. This allows for the operation of serious projects, running powerful apps, and maintaining extensive databases. Dedicated hosting is adapt to run websites that require coping with high traffic peaks or handling sensitive data. Shared hosting is not suitable for this kind of tasks. It’s clear that a dedicated server means more resources than a shared one, but the latter also brings certain problems that have to do with conflicting neighbours. The exact quantity of the capacities you have at your disposal isn’t set, and there are times when your website runs short of them. Under these circumstances, your website may go down or freeze, which will not only reduce the effectiveness of the applications that run on your server but also push away your customers.
The virtual private server resolves this problem to some extent but still isn’t nearly as powerful as a dedicated server.
The dedicated server is also the least susceptible to hacker attacks, which makes it the safest option among hosting solutions. Having neighbours on the server means that if one of them is hacked or is a hacker, it’s much easier for them to hack you and damage the operation of your server or get access to sensitive data.
The uptime of a dedicated server is around 99,9 %. This means your website is always up, ready to serve your customers anytime.
Independence and flexibility.
With a dedicated server, you may feel free to install the operating system and any software needed for the work of your website without any restrictions, not needing to reckon with anyone else. While shared hosting or VPS usually have an already preinstalled server environment, with dedicated hosting, you can feel free to administer your website as you see fit. If this task seems a bit complicated for you and you want to invest more resources into other aspects of your business, then you can ask your provider to do these tasks with the managed server option.
Who is suitable for a dedicated server?
Any websites that have high technical requirements for the server hardware are recommend to be host on a dedicated server. A common example of these websites are e-commerce websites, but they can include almost any type of site used by mid-sized and larger businesses. As you start your business, it’s common to choose a VPN or even shared hosting if the requirements of your website are at the basic level. Later on, if you grow and as you grow, the needs usually increase and you start noticing the urge to find a better hosting solution. When it comes, it’s best to start looking for a dedicated hosting provider. It will require more financial investments, it won’t most probably be a problem for you at that stage. In our opinion, a good choice will be Hostzealot’s dedicated server in Europe – it will definitely meet your growing needs.
We wish you good luck and a good choice of hosting solution. Stay tuned!
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