If you have root-level access to a hosting server, it indicates that you will have full control of it. In other words, you'll be able set up any server-side app irrespective of the changes that it'll make to the software setting on your server, and you're able to both access and update any file, including system files, and modify any settings. This can be done by connecting to the server as a root user that has full privileges to perform the aforementioned things as well as to make other users, which includes users that also have full privileges. This connection can be established with a web-based graphical interface or a Secure Shell console. For security reasons, it's recommended that you create a separate user for your everyday work and use the root user only when you need to modify the server or to set up software which may be needed by some script-driven app that you wish to run.

Full Root-level Access in VPS

You are able to manage your new virtual private servers at the root level whatever the plan that you have chosen, as long as the server is ordered with either the cPanel or the DirectAdmin web hosting Control Panel, or with no Control Panel at all. In the first case, many system settings can be managed through a user-friendly web-based interface, while in the second, you'll have to make everything using a console, until you decide to set up a Control Panel yourself. In either case, you'll have full control over the VPS and any kind of system or custom content on it all of the time, that makes this type of hosting perfect for any app that you can't run with a shared web hosting account because of the limited level of access - frameworks, VoIP and audio/video streaming software, etc. The last VPS Control Panel alternative is Hepsia, but the root access to your server is restricted.

Full Root-level Access in Dedicated Hosting

If you get one of the Linux dedicated servers hosting packages which we provide, you'll have full root-level access and you will be able to do anything that you can't do with a shared web hosting account - to update the server-side PHP settings, to set up frameworks or media streaming software, etcetera. You will be able to order the server with no hosting Control Panel and do everything from a console, unless you set up a third-party tool, or you can order it with cPanel or DirectAdmin and use a web-based graphical interface to take care of your websites and many system settings. In all three cases, you will have full control over the server. The significant amount of system resources that you'll get makes our dedicated plans a fantastic choice for any type of content that you want to have. The servers that are ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel are easier to take care of, yet the root access to such a machine will be limited.