Explanation of Dedicated Packages

When we speak of hosting web servers, there are 3 basic varieties - hosting servers, VPS (virtual web servers) and dedicated packages. Shared web hosting servers host lots of clients and hence the system resources per web hosting account are restricted, VPS give you more server configuration independence, but also influence other private virtual hosting servers on the hardware node if used unwisely, and dedicated servers give you the option to carry out everything you think fit without meddling with anyone else.

Why would you need a dedicated servers?

Dedicated servers are normally much more expensive than shared hosting servers or VPS servers. Why would anyone, then, want to use them? The answer is pretty simple. If your company has a large web portal, or simply has very precise server configuration requirements, the most sensible choice would be a dedicated servers. For someone who is inclined to invest in safety and dependability, the bigger price is not an issue. You gain complete root access and can utilize 100% of the dedicated web hosting server's resources without anyone else sharing these resources and intervening with your online portals.

Hardware architectures

The majority of hosting firms, incl. us at Kenya Digital Cloud, offer different hardware architectures you can pick from based on your demands. The configurations offer different kinds of processors, a different amount of cores, different RAM memory and server hard disk drive sizes and different bandwidth quotas. You can select a web hosting CP, which is a handy GUI if you would like to utilize the dedicated servers for website hosting purposes only and choose not to resort to an SSH console for all the changes you will be making. We provide three kinds of web hosting Control Panel software - Hepsia, DirectAdmin and cPanel.

The hosting CP of your choice

If you are a confident Linux OS user (our servers are running on Linux or other Unix-based Operating Systems), you could administer your dedicated servers via a Secure Shell tunnel only. That, however, could be inconvenient, particularly if you want to grant full root-level access to somebody else who has less technical knowledge than yourself. This is why having web hosting CP software pre-installed is a nice idea. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel user interface that we offer does not include full root-level access and is mainly appropriate for someone who runs a lot of web sites that consume plenty of system resources, but wishes to administer the websites, databases and e-mails via a user-friendly hosting CP. The DirectAdmin and cPanel Control Panels, on the other hand, give you full root-level access and have 3 access levels - root, reseller and user. If you plan to resell hosting plans instead of using the dedicated servers just for yourself, you should select one of these two.

Server monitoring and backup services

Last but not least, there is the matter of monitoring the dedicated servers and of backing it up. In the event of a predicament with your web server, such as an unresponsive Apache or a downtime, it is useful to have some kind of monitoring system enabled. Here at Kenya Digital Cloud the system administrators monitor all dedicated servers for ping timeouts, and, if you have a Managed Services package, they monitor the separate services on the dedicated servers too. Backups are also an additional feature - the company offers you data backups on our own backup servers. You could select a kind of RAID that would permit you to save the very same data on 2 server hard disks as a precaution in the event of a disk drive failure, or in case someone whom you have ranted full server root privileges deletes something by mistake.