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 install any server-side app no matter what the changes that it'll make to the software setting on your server, and you will be able to both access and customize any 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 do the aforementioned things as well as to make other users, which includes users who also have full privileges. The connection can be established with a web-based graphical interface or a Secure Shell console. For security reasons, it's recommended that you create another user for your everyday work and use the root user only when you have to customize the server or to set up software that may be required by a script-driven application that you wish to run.

Full Root-level Access in VPS Hosting

You're able to take care of your new virtual private servers at the root level regardless of the plan 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 through a user-friendly web-based interface, while in the second, you'll have 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 and any kind of system or custom content on it all of the time, which makes this type of website hosting perfect for any application which you can't run with a shared web hosting account due to the limited degree of access - frameworks, VoIP and audio/video streaming software, and many others. The last VPS Control Panel option is Hepsia, but the root access to your server is limited.

Full Root-level Access in Dedicated Web Hosting

When you select the cPanel or the DirectAdmin website hosting Control Panel, you will have full root access to your new dedicated server, no matter which of our plans you'll choose throughout the signup process. The exact same is valid when you choose not to install a Control Panel at all. All of our servers will give you the option to run both very resource-demanding apps which are too heavy for a standard shared hosting account and applications which have certain requirements as to what the program environment on the 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 installed on it. The difference between the abovementioned alternatives is that without having 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 controlled via a graphical interface. When you pick Hepsia, that is the last Control Panel option on the order page, you will receive a server with restricted root access.