Get Familiar with Dedicated Server

A dedicated server is a hardware that is given to you by your hosting service via rent or sometimes purchase. This type of server has a processor, hard disk drives(s), RAM (Random Access Memory) and also bandwidth capacity. The server will exclusively host your website and its associated software on its hard disk drives. With dedicated servers it is possible to install and run almost any program. If you give access to any other users in your server, they will be allowed to connect with the dedicated server and use the same programs that you are using at the same time. For this reason dedicated servers have become very popular amongst online gamers. There are also dedicated gaming servers that have all the features of a regular dedicated server but are generally used for not so serious purposes.

Most of the dedicated server hosting services gives you the option to fully customize or build the dedicated server. You can choose and pay only for the features which you need. You often get to choose the operating system software (Windows Server Edition & Linux Red hat is mostly chosen by the users).

As your website and/ or application is exclusively hosted on this server, there is no risk of the server getting slow because of requests from other websites or applications. On a shared hosting plan, the speed is dependent upon how much traffic the shared hosting server is getting from other sites. This causes slow loading times for your site. Dedicated server hosting will avoid all that by giving exclusive bandwidth to your site. Shared hosting also has other risks because you cannot know who is uploading what on the server that you too are using.

On a dedicated server only you will have access and no one else. All the contents out there, is yours and thus there is not much danger of viruses or any other harmful software unless you upload them yourselves. Apart from that most plans of dedicated hosting service has the option of an external firewall protection which helps you to better enforce the access rights set by you.

Another concept that is fast changing the field of hosting services is VPS server. VPS server is virtual private server. This is a new technique of web hosting in which the computer system is divided in order to provide multiple servers to multiple users. You can have the same feeling that of a physical server. Each system has a separate operating system so that multiple features can be supported. It is possible to reboot every server separately. Thanks to these interesting features VPS are growing more popular. With support from Data center India, this is a cost effective service for web hosting.