If you have root-level access to a hosting server, it indicates that you'll have full control over it. That is to say, you'll be able install any server-side app no matter what the changes that it'll make to the software setting on your server, and you'll be able to both access and change any kind of file, including system files, and modify various settings. You can do this by connecting to the server as a root user who has full privileges to perform all these things as well as to generate other users, which includes users that also have full privileges. The connection can be established through a web-based graphical interface or a Secure Shell console. For safety reasons, it is recommended that you create another user for your everyday work and use the root user only when you need to modify the server or to set up software that may be needed by some script-driven app that you would like to run.
Full Root-level Access in VPS Hosting
The Linux VPS hosting packages which we provide are suitable for various purposes, depending on what you wish to install and run on them and what experience you have. When the hosting server is ordered with the cPanel or the DirectAdmin website hosting Control Panel, you'll have full root access and will be able to take care of your world-wide web content via a graphical interface, while you may still install server-side apps which may be needed for your sites and even by offline apps, like VoIP software, media encoding software, various frameworks, and many others. Devoid of Control Panel, you'll also have full root-level access, but you'll need to do everything through a console. When you choose to use our tailor-made Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, there will be certain root access limitations, but this configuration is the easiest to control. That way, you can choose the virtual server plan that you need.
Full Root-level Access in Dedicated Web Hosting
In case you select the cPanel or the DirectAdmin hosting Control Panel, you'll have full root access to your new dedicated server, no matter which of our plans you will select during the signup process. Exactly the same is valid if you decide not to add a Control Panel at all. All our servers will give you the possibility to run both really resource-demanding apps which are too heavy for a standard shared web hosting account and applications that have particular requirements as to what the software environment on your web hosting server has to be. The latter is something which can't be achieved on a shared machine, since no server-side software can be set up on it. The difference between the abovementioned solutions is that without having a Control Panel, server management can be done only via a console, while if you get cPanel or DirectAdmin, the majority of system settings along with your website content will be controlled via a graphical interface. If you select Hepsia, which is the last Control Panel option on the order page, you'll receive a server with restricted root access.