If you have root-level access to a hosting server, this means that you'll have full control over it. That is to say, you'll be able install any server-side app whatever the changes that it will make to the software setting on the server, and you are able to both access and change any kind of file, which includes system files, and change various settings. You can do this by connecting to the server as a root user which has full privileges to do all these things and to generate other users, which includes users that also have full privileges. This particular can be established with a web-based graphical interface or a Secure Shell console. For security reasons, it is recommended that you make another user for your daily work and use the root user only when you need to modify the server or to install software which may be required by a script-driven application that you wish to run.

Full Root-level Access in VPS Servers

You're able to manage your new VPS servers at the root level whatever the plan which you have picked, 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, multiple system settings can be controlled via a user-friendly web-based interface, whereas in the second, you'll need to make everything using a console, until you decide to install a Control Panel yourself. Either way, you will have full control over the VPS in addition to any kind of system and / or custom content on it all of the time, which makes this kind of hosting perfect for any app which you cannot run with a shared web hosting account due to the restricted degree of access - frameworks, VoIP and audio/video streaming software, and many others. The final VPS Control Panel choice is Hepsia, however the root access to your server will be limited.

Full Root-level Access in Dedicated Servers

If you pick the cPanel or the DirectAdmin website hosting Control Panel, you'll have full root access to your new dedicated server, regardless of which of our packages you will select during the signup process. The same is valid when you choose not to use a Control Panel at all. All our servers will give you the option to run both really resource-demanding applications that are too heavy for a shared hosting account and applications that have specific requirements as to what the software environment on the website hosting server needs to be. The latter is something that can't be achieved on a shared machine, since no server-side software can be installed on it. The difference between the abovementioned choices is that without having a Control Panel, server management can be done only from a console, while if you acquire cPanel or DirectAdmin, most system settings as well as your site content can be controlled through a graphical interface. When you select Hepsia, that is the last Control Panel option on the order page, you'll have a server with restricted root access.