What is Dedicated Hosting?

Free and paid shared plans are one of the most widespread hosting solutions on the market. They are good for small-size web sites that do not demand plenty of resources and do not draw that many website visitors, but for content-heavy online portals with many thousands of visitors, a more advanced solution is necessary. If you require a robust, no-holds-barred web hosting solution that can deal with even millions of daily hits, a dedicated hosting is your finest choice.

Tackle the Intense Load Created by Your Websites with a Dedicated Hosting Server

With the dedicated web hosting solution, you rent an entire physical machine whose system resources will be utilized solely by your sites. Just as any PC, each dedicated hosting server has one or more central processing units running at a particular speed, some amount of RAM memory, one or more hard disk drives, etc. A hosting server is actually a computer with a hardware configuration aimed to tackle high load and given software installed on it, such as web server software, PHP and MySQL software platforms, and so on, which permits the sites hosted on it to be visible on the Internet.

Managed Dedicated Hosting Services

A dedicated hosting server can be administered either by the hosting distributor, or by the client, on the basis of the given dedicated hosting package. In either situation, the side handling the web hosting server has access to a software tool to restart it at any specific moment. Management is carried out through a web hosting CP graphical interface that enables you to keep track of the processes running on the dedicated machine.

Operating Systems for Dedicated Hosting

There are different web hosting server Operating Systems such as Windows, FreeBSD, a variety of Linux distributions, and so on. Specific web hosting service providers provide dedicated hosting running one given Operating System, whereas others offer clients a choice. MSSQL databases and .NET sites necessitate a Windows web server, for example, and will not operate on a different Operating System, whereas PHP and HTML driven websites using MySQL databases will run on any Operating System. Before leasing a dedicated hosting server, learn what the web hosting service provider offers and what the necessities of your website are.

Software Platforms for Dedicated Hosting

By default, each dedicated hosting server includes all the software required in order to manage a website - web server software, database software (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and so on), PHP software, an FTP server and so on, so once you get the dedicated hosting server, you can upload your web site files and get the website online. Most web hosting corporations give root access, in other words you can activate any software applications on the dedicated hosting server and update any settings. Particular script-based platforms require server-side applications that should be pre-installed in order for them to perform. A lot of e-commerce software scripts, for example, include such a precondition, and having full root access to the dedicated hosting server is critical for having an online shop. Other hosting service providers do not grant root-level access, but help the customer activate the necessary software platforms - this is the so-called managed hosting service, as differentiated from the unmanaged web hosting service, which offers full root privileges.

Dedicated Hosting by 'Lime Server'

The web site files on the dedicated hosting server can be handled either via a Secure Shell (SSH) client or via a Control Panel GUI such as cPanel, DirectAdmin, Hepsia, etc. There are 10's of web hosting Control Panel graphical user interfaces available, and normally web hosting providers provide a couple of them, and with full root-level access at hand, the customer can activate any of them. All web site files, databases, electronic mail aliases, access logs and script installations are administered easily through a graphical user interface in a web browser, so no advanced knowledge is needed. Given CPs also have a reseller back office dashboard, so if you pick a dedicated hosting server, you can not only host your website files, but also offer shared web hosting plans to different persons to generate cash. We, at Lime Server, provide free-of-cost billing software and a domain reseller account with each dedicated hosting plan of ours, which allows you to constitute your very own hosting corporation and generate money very quickly because the hosting business niche is incessantly flourishing.