Dedicated server hosting is the most powerful type of website hosting designed to meet all your content hosting and streaming needs. Using a dedicated server, you have a unique opportunity to control the content you create and how it is shared with your audience. Dedicated servers give you complete freedom to share and distribute content, unlike sharing on external platforms.
What Features Are Essential for Content Hosting and Streaming?
Server Control
Dedicated server hosting gives you complete control over how the server is run and configured, in an isolated environment. Other than that, you can also adjust the hardware specifications or install the operating system on your own.
Besides, you can also control the media server software you use, that is, an external software application with basic live broadcast and recording functions.
Data Storage
As we said, before streaming video or audio, it must be read from a file on disk. Therefore, the size of disk data storage on the server is critical because it will tell you how much file space you have. Although larger applications require more data storage, many dedicated servers use solid-state drives and SATA hard disk drives for backup.
Some dedicated servers now support Non-Volatile Memory Express that can be used with solid-state drives to provide faster input/output and greater data bandwidth. Non-Volatile Memory Express is designed from the ground up, taking advantage of the performance, low latency, and parallelism of SSDs. This allows your dedicated server to complete more work in less time, providing 2 times the speed of your website’s audience.
Bandwidth
Since the dedicated server is hosted in a data centre environment, you can use a lot of bandwidth for streaming. Remember that bandwidth for dedicated servers is usually allocated in terabytes, although different hosting providers have different servers and specifications.
Server Security
With your dedicated server, you are the only person who can access the server, so you will not share it with anyone else. This means that there are no software vulnerabilities or harmful configurations that could compromise your data. This allows you to optimize any functions you need based on the specific requirements of your website and stored files. You are ultimately responsible for how to implement these functions, but this is the beauty of the flexibility of a dedicated server.
