If you have root-level access to a server, this means that you will have full control over it. In other words, you can set up any server-side application no matter what the changes that it will make to the software setting on your server, and you'll be able to both access and update any kind of file, including system files, and modify various settings. This can be done by connecting to the server as a root user which has full privileges to perform all these things and also to generate other users, which includes users who also have full privileges. The connection can be established using a web-based graphical interface or a Secure Shell console. For security reasons, it's recommended that you create a different user for your everyday work and employ the root user only when you need to customize the server or to install software that may be required by some script-driven application that you want to run.
Full Root-level Access in VPS
The Linux VPS packages that we offer are appropriate for various different purposes, depending on what you wish to set up and run on them and the experience that you have. If the server is provided with the cPanel website hosting Control Panel, you'll have full root access and will be able to take care of your world-wide web content through a graphical interface, while you may still set up server-side apps which may be needed for your sites and even by offline applications, such as VoIP programs, media encoding software, various frameworks, etc. Without any Control Panel, you will also have full root-level access, but you will need to do everything through a console. If you choose to use our custom-made Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, there are certain root access limitations, but this configuration is the easiest to manage. This way, you'll be able to choose the virtual server package that you need.
Full Root-level Access in Dedicated Hosting
In case you pick the cPanel web hosting Control Panel, you'll have full root access to your new dedicated server, no matter which of our plans you'll choose during the registration process. The same is valid when you choose not to install a Control Panel at all. Our servers provide you with the chance to run both very resource-demanding apps that are too heavy for a regular shared hosting account and apps which have certain requirements as to what the software environment on your server needs to be. The latter is something which can't be achieved on a shared machine, as no server-side software can be installed on it. The difference between the abovementioned options is that without a Control Panel, server management can be done only through a console, whereas if you obtain cPanel, most of the system settings as well as your website content will be managed via a graphical interface. When you select Hepsia, that is the last Control Panel option on the registration page, you will receive a server with restricted root access.