The Internet provides endless possibilities to anyone who is ready to embark on an adventure. Because creating your own website is quite an adventure, especially if it is for leisure and fun. That can be a website about your favorite computer game where you can share achievements and discuss strategies or a website about your favorite sports club where you can post updates and history notes. But before you can launch the website, you need to have a web hosting service.

What is Dedicated Server Hosting?

Dedicated Server Hosting Solutions by NTChostingWhen a single client using an entire server for hosting they are using dedicated server web hosting. As one might imagine having an entire server to host your website can be quite expensive depending on the specific deal but it would probably be for a commercial purpose and it will certainly pay off. With the resources that you have at your disposal when you have an entire dedicated server you can host great web portals with fancy multimedia and lots of traffic without compromising the uptime or the speed of the website.

Types of Dedicated Server Hosting

One might guess that just like any other type of web hosting, dedicated server hosting will have different types depending on the specific requirements of the client and their website. As always the most noticeable difference is comes with the operating system and here we have two popular types of dedicated server hosting:

  • Linux dedicated server hosting - dedicated servers with Linux operating system are usually preferred because of the lower costs for setup and maintenance due to the fact that it is free as well the ability to modify operating system according to the requirements of the client since Linux is open-source.
  • Windows dedicated server hosting - dedicated servers with Windows operating system are more expensive to setup and maintain and therefore they are avoided unless the requirements of the website or the web application impose that.

Dedicated Server HostingLinux dedicated hosting has other divisions on its own. If we consider the most common web hosting configuration known as LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) we will see that a few types of hosting are intertwined and we can differentiate them into the following:

  • Linux dedicated server hosting with Apache web server - the Apache web server has become the most popular web server and the first one to reach the milestone of supporting over 100 million websites back in 2009 so it is a quite common combination with Linux dedicated servers.
  • Linux dedicated server hosting with MySQL - MySQL is a very popular relational database management system that is capable of working with many programming languages as well as working on various operating systems including Linux. It is used with some of the most popular web applications such as Joomla, Moodle and WordPress.
  • Linux dedicated server hosting with PHP - PHP is multi-purpose scripting language that is often used for web applications and website development. It is capable of working with different types of database management system. Just like MySQL it is capable of working on various platforms including Linux and it is used in the creation of the same popular web applications mentioned above.