If you have root-level access to a hosting server, it indicates that you'll have full control of it. In other words, you can set up any server-side app whatever the changes that it will make to the software environment on the server, and you will be able to both access and customize any file, which includes system files, and modify any settings. You can do this by connecting to the server as a root user that has full privileges to perform the aforementioned things and to generate other users, including users that also have full privileges. This particular can be established through a web-based graphical interface or a Secure Shell console. For security reasons, it is recommended that you create another user for your daily work and employ the root user only when you have to customize the server or to install software that may be needed by some script-driven app that you want to run.

Full Root-level Access in VPS Servers

You will be able to take care of your new VPS servers at the root level regardless of the package that you've picked, as long as the server is ordered with either the cPanel or the DirectAdmin hosting Control Panel, or with no Control Panel at all. In the first case, a large number of system settings can be managed from a user-friendly web-based interface, whereas in the second, you'll need to make everything through a console, unless you decide to set up a Control Panel yourself. In either case, you'll have full control over the VPS as well as any system and / or custom content on it all the time, that makes this type of web hosting perfect for any application which you cannot run with a shared web hosting account due to the restricted level of access - frameworks, VoIP and audio/video streaming software, etc. The last VPS Control Panel choice is Hepsia, but the root access to your server will be restricted.

Full Root-level Access in Dedicated Servers

If you choose the cPanel or the DirectAdmin hosting Control Panel, you will have full root access to your new dedicated server, regardless of which of our packages you will select throughout the registration process. The same is valid if you decide not to add a Control Panel at all. Our servers provide you with the possibility to run both really resource-demanding apps which are too heavy for a standard shared hosting account and apps which have particular requirements as to what the software environment on your hosting server has to be. The latter is something that can't be achieved on a shared machine, as no server-side software can be set up on it. The difference between the abovementioned alternatives is that without a Control Panel, server management can be done only from a console, whereas if you acquire cPanel or DirectAdmin, most of the system settings along with your site content will be managed through a graphical interface. When you choose Hepsia, that is the last Control Panel option on the order page, you will receive a server with restricted root access.