Dedicated server hosting or dedicated hosting is a hosting environment where one or more servers are dedicated for a single client. Unlike other hosting services, this dedicated server allows you to lease an entire server for your own exclusive use. This specific hosting process involves the leasing of a complete server from a dedicated server host company. In this case, the hosting provider has the responsibility of backing up the server, ensuring security, power supervision, and all other aspects of maintaining a data center. The site owner has to simply take care of the software issues of the server.
Dedicated hosting can be split into two categories, namely managed dedicated hosting and unmanaged dedicated hosting. With a managed dedicated servers, the hosting provider itself will take care of managing your hardware, operating system, installing application software, security software, firewall installations, and more. This is a good option if you don’t have the man power, money or time to operate a server in house. While for unmanaged dedicated server, the customer themselves have to manage the server and the control is completely under them only.
Dedicated server hosting has lots of benefits and thus many people are willing to pay higher cost for this type of web hosting server. The most important benefits is that a dedicated server can work with any type of operating system and it is not limited by configuration problems. This form of hosting is a most secured one as the web server is not shared by anyone else. As the resources are not shared, the dedicated hosting comes with better processing speed and reliability.