Dedicated servers

Why choose a dedicated server?

Dedicated servers placed in racks in the data center

Advantages provided by a dedicated server

Dedicated servers for resource consumers

The dedicated servers are recommended for the websites or services with high resource consumption. A dedicated server provides high calculation power, a high number of operations per second with the storage medium, high quantity of (RAM) memory and it's all at your disposal. The network port is, also, completely at your disposal.

Your server, without noisy neighbors

The shared web hosting services and virtual server hosting operate on servers where other clients are hosted, as well. In order for the hosting service providers to offer a competitive commercial solution, a certain healthy "overselling" degree is practically used. Just as it happens when it comes to mobile phone offers: if all the customers used simultaneously those packages with "unlimited" minutes, then the mobile networks would not function at all. Therefore, hosting packages with many resources can be offered, at an affordable price. There are resource sonsumption isolation and limitation software mechanisms achieved through the renters sharing the same hardware resources, but these mechanisms are not perfect. In case of a dedicated server you have the certainty that there is no neighbor with whom your web application is fighting for resources. Consequently, the dedicated servers are ideal for the projects having the necessary budget and that need a high and constant level of resources at the web application's disposal.

A dedicated server offers you freedom

The hosting solutions with a smaller price have a default set of software applications. In case of dedicated server, since there is no server neighbor you could affect in any way, you can install any software and any version, including any operating system. Then, you can opt for a control panel and you can choose the version of each software, which best suits your scenario.

Enhanced security with the dedicated servers

The shared web hosting and VPS hosting packages provide a reasonable degree of security. The shared web hosting services depend on software applications, such as: operating system (e.g. CentOS, Ubuntu), web server (Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed), mail server (Exim, Postfix), control panel (cPanel, Plesk), FTP server (Pure-FTP, ProFTPD). The VPS hosting services depend on the operating systems (CentOS, Ubuntu) and on the virtualization technology (KVM, XEN, VMWare). These software applications can have certain security vulnerabilities through which, a client hosted on that server can access the data of another client on the same physical server. Such situations are rare, but not impossible. As such, for the highest security degree a dedicated server is recommended.

OpEx instead of CapEx

In order for you to run your websites or applications on a dedicated server, you can purchase the equipemnt or you can rent it for a monthly payment, from Hosterion.

Purchasing a physical server implies making a "Capital Expenditure", briefly "CapEx"). Such an expenditure pyas itself off in several years and it means choosing, configurating, testing the hardware and dispatching the server to a different data center. Besides the additional activities and the necessary know-how, the purchased server implies a big initial investment and the server could turn out to be inappropriate in a few months. When renting a dedicated server, your expenditure is a monthly operational expenditure (or OpEx) and it provides you flexibility without a big initial investment. Paying monthly the dedicated server rent gives you the opportunity, any month, to: make an upgrade to a superior server, to downgrade - if the chosen server proves to be more powerful than it is necessary or even give up the dedicated server if you don't need it. You must consider the fact that moving data from one server to another implies a few hours of work for a system administrator, therefore it is not recommended for you, because of the costs, to perform this operation frequently.

Service limitations on shared hardware

Web hosting or VPS-es are services running in a shared medium, which means that on the server also run the services of other clients. These provide a great number of facilities, software included and management at a reduced price, but with certain limitations and inconvenience presented above.