70% of firms planning on extending their cloud or virtual hosting presence

By Fred Jones
IT decision makers are planning on extending their cloud or virualised presence, according to reports.
Interestingly, the fears that many executives had over adopting cloud services for their online backup and hosting needs are beginning to wane, with 62% of respondents who did not already use SaaS (software as a service) or virtualised hosting [...]

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Scalability of VPS platforms

Growing with VPS
We find that VPS web hosting provides an ideal framework for the majority of growing client’s hosting needs and rapid scalability before switching over to a dedicated environment. Of course there are occasional times when VPS hosting is not the ideal hosting environment but on the whole this is an ideal hosting platform [...]

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Common VPS web hosting FAQs

Bandwidth
The amount of data that can be transferred to and from your hosting space, the higher the number of visitors you expect to receive to your site, the higher the amount of bandwidth you will use. There are multiple ways in which bandwidth is calculated by your hosting provider.
Burstable memory
The amount of memory that [...]

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Virtual Private Servers

“Virtual Private Servers, or VPS cover most of the functional equivalent of a dedicated server. A VPS, occasionally referred to as a Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS empower you for non I/O heavy applications with the flexibility and benefits of a dedicated server at a fraction of the price.”

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Advantages of Virtual Private Servers, or VPS

Here are a few of the advantages of a VPS Hosting environment:

# your own secure and separate VPS hosting environment
# full remote control and access of your VPS server or servers
# the ability to host as many sites on your ‘virtual server’ as you wish without additional charge
# the ability to install & configure whatever applications you wish on your VPS server
# enhanced control, including server reboots and backups”