What is dedicated server hosting?

The type of web hosting service where the entire server is given in rent or sold to one buyer (one hosting account) is named dedicated hosting. A dedicated hosting could be used like a single website or by multiple websites in the same time (then it has to be shared), may vary depending on your requirements. Just one hosting account could reserve the server resources.

What’s good about a dedicated hosting?

The dedicated hosting plans usually have good functions and their use is more flexible.

Users of this type of hosting can control the server operating system, server hardware specifications, website bandwidth allocation (if more then one website is hosted on the account), and custom web installation. For a better technical support, some hosting providers organized a team of technical personnel which serves to dedicated hosting users.

Dedicated Hosting: Managed vs Unmanaged

Supervisory tasks of a dedicated server can be completely in- charged by the user or provider, it depends on the hosting providers. Still we can not define the management role of dedicated hosting providers because they do not have access to the relevant directives, standards.
In the market, the most dedicated hosting plans are ‘Managed Hosting Plans’ and here users can totally monitor the hosting server; but the hard part will be performed by the dealer (such as server maintenance, software installation, security auditing, intrusion detection, server backups, and applications updates). To make easier the consumers job the hosting providers often offer hosting plans with pre-configured specifications.

For example, in the following table you can see a dedicated hosting plan offered by Hostgator. You can see that from the beginning have been preset hardware specifications and base operating system.

When is the right time to take up a dedicated hosting plan?

We recommend you the dedicated hosting in these cases:

• if your website is facing a massive traffic
• if you use heavy web applications on your website
• if you consider that the website security is the most important for you
• if you do not really have much knowledge of PC or you have insufficient manpower

Do you need a dedicated server?

Do you think that the dedicated server meets your requirements?

You don’t need a dedicated server if you are an individual webmaster or a blogger. You will need this if you have hundreds of thousands visitors in a day, but in the most cases the dedicated servers are not for them.

For sure the dedicated server has positive features, but don’t forget that this type of hosting is more expensive.