Corporate sites, social networks and video sharing sites are very famous and highly visited sites that require plenty of system resources to operate. The more viewers a web site accommodates simultaneously, the more system resources will be required to cope with all the requests from the users' web browsers and to complete them. For that reason a dedicated web server would be the optimal hosting environment for such web pages.
Buying a dedicated servers suggests that you get an entire hosting server for your needs. As opposed to the web hosting services or the Virtual Private Server environment where you share a physical server with a given number of other clients, with a dedicated web hosting server you can avail of all the system resources for your sites' needs.
There are diverse server configurations that you can buy. They differ in relation to the hardware features they are offering - processors, RAM quantities, hard disks, network interface cards, but they may also have a monthly bandwidth restriction. For a very famous website, or if you wish to host numerous web sites on one server, you may think of a more avant-garde configuration.
Traditionally, the web hosting companies offer a variety of configurations to fulfill the demands of their customers - from a small hosting server for one single web portal to a very powerful configuration that can manage very famous web portals and 1000's of viewers at any particular moment. The CPU and server storage quotas and the database connections can be restricted solely by the web server hardware itself.
One significant advantage of the dedicated hosting server over a shared web space hosting plan is that you have full server root privileges, so you can install any software program that you want. Certain electronic commerce shopping cart software applications, for example, necessitate extra software that cannot be installed on a shared web hosting server as it would affect all the users on it. With a dedicated web server, you have complete liberty to install anything. You can manage the web hosting server either by using the SSH network protocol, or via a web space hosting Control Panel tool. Here, you have a choice again. You can avail of a Control Panel provided by the web site hosting corporation, or you can activate your own. Some popular web site hosting CP tools are cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin and H-Sphere. Some firms such as NTC Hosting, for example, offer their own webspace hosting CP, which is made based on client suggestions and offers multiple domain hosting support. Some hosting Control Panel GUIs are licence-free (Hepsia), while others (cPanel) require a monthly license tax to utilize them.
Together with the opportunity to host your own domain name, a dedicated web server gives you the possibility to run your own personal webspace hosting company and to sell website hosting packages to other people. Plenty of site hosting Control Panel interfaces offer a reseller web hosting administration software supplement, so if you get an invoice transaction & client support solution such as WHMCS, AWBS or ClientExec, you can build your web hosting business, creating different web space hosting packages for your prospective clients. You can also provide technical support to your clients directly, and, since you have complete root access, you can install software programs on demand, so your customers will be gratified with the service they obtain.
Certain website hosting corporations also offer an extra paid admin service, whereby the company's system administrators will aid you with any issue that you may have with your dedicated server - an OS update, a script activation, a troubleshooting procedure, or any other complication that you may stumble upon.
A dedicated web hosting server is the extreme hosting platform if you are searching for an advanced and reliable shared hosting service without bothering about exceeding any quota limitations. Whether you will host your own personal websites, or you are a website designer with lots of clients and demand web hosting server storage space for your work, or you want to gain some good money by reselling the web hosting server disk space to others, a dedicated web server will offer you the autonomy that no other website hosting solution can.