When you lease a dedicated server, only you have the right to use that server’s hardware; It is quite different from VPS or cloud-based servers from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and google’s GCP, where a customer is billed based on usage over share hardware cloud infrastructure.

In Dedicated servers, server resource memory RAM, processor power storage, and every other component within server chases are at customers’ disposal. Customer is free to host a single website, use it for computing, make a VPN server, make it part of his office network using tunneling protocols, use it for offshore storage or backups, or use the processor power to share the processing load of office machines or run a database server. 

Any other tenets in the same server cabinet or data center cannot affect servers’ bandwidth commitments. It is a pretty standard feature of servers offered by leading providers nowadays. creativeON chooses only data centers where one client-leased machine is completely isolated from the effects of others. It is achieved by good network design and continued monitoring by datacenters. Firewalls and DOS (denial of server) and DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks ever reach your server.

Yes, all dedicated servers come with as much control as you can of your desktop or laptop, plus all the connectivity and stability benefits of a data center.

For Linux servers, you will have root access, and you will be able to connect to your server using any ssh client; we recommend and use Putty open source ssh client.

For Windows dedicated servers, you will have full control using RDC (remote desktop connection). one RDC client license is included with windows that we will install for you. You will need an additional RDC license if you need to connect with more than one RDC client.

Yes, you can upgrade your VPS service/package to a dedicated server in a management sense. But technically, VPS and dedicated servers are different, and a VPS cannot be upgraded to a dedicated server. The upgradation process will require the migration of your data and services from VPS hardware to new server hardware. 

In certain cases, the VPS upgrade requirement is handled by increasing the VPS resources until it matches the dedicated server in demand. It can save you from setting up a new server, redeploying your application, and migrating the data.

Usually, for stocked servers, it takes less than an hour to install OS and pass the control to you. 

Server installation takes a little longer when you have specific requirements about hard drive partitioning or you want an OS installed that is rarely used. Delays are also expected for custom raid configurations.

For custom server orders, especially if you require hardware unavailable within the data center, you will need to wait as long as the order is delivered. 

For servers in Pakistan, it takes a day for listed/stocked servers. 

Dedicated servers are unnecessary if you run a blog or a simple site with small applications and low to moderate traffic. Infect going for a dedicated server for a simple website with incurring additional overhead of server management. And you might need the assistance of a server administrator. 

On the other hand, if your application is mission critical, you need configurations that need full server control, or you have a lot of traffic, then the dedicated server option is for you. 

For unmanaged servers, we will provide access to only connect to your server in Linux with SSH and in windows with RDC. Beyond this point, you are responsible for managing all aspects of your server.

For managed servers, we will configure and manage your server so you are able to host websites. If you buy a server with cPanel/WHM control panel from us, it will include basic server management that includes

• Install: We will install CentOS 7.9 (or Cloud Linux 7 or 8, license to be bought separately) and cPanel version 106. We will do the initial cPanel setup, including all pre-requisites and DNS setup for your domain, so you can start hosting your sites without hassle.
• Updates: We will update CentOS, CloudLinux, and cPanel for all security patches as they are released. For CloudLinux, we recommend KernelCare. With this technology, you can have rebootless updates. Please note that KernelCare is a paid service from the makers of CloudLinux.
• Optimization: We will optimize apache to suit your traffic pattern.
• Firewall: We will install CSF Firewall from the config server to your cPanel Server.
• Hardening: We will harden your server and remove all unnecessary services. 

As of August 2022, we offer the following 64-bit Linux flavors that we will install for you. 

CentOS 7.9 (minimal), CentOS Stream 8, Alma Linux 8.5, 

Rocky Linux 8.5, Debian 10.11 (Buster) in Minimal and LAMP stack configurations, Debian 11.1 (Bullseye), Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Minimal and Nextcloud, Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa), Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

For Windows servers, we will install Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (one virtual instance). The following windows versions are depreciated and will not be reinstalled even for OS-reload requests.

Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2016. If you want to run the Hyper-V virtualization solution over windows server 2016, please do call us.