Whereas VPS Cloud Hosting relies on a network or cluster of servers. The cloud hosting company providers can offer additional memory to some VPS portions that are in use when others are dormant. This ensures that there is full use of all the memory on the main server and also, ensures that all clients have the resources they require and have requested. This flexibility is an ideal capability that allows the use of the memory by heavy applications while at the same time giving those that use very little memory just enough to run without hitches. This kind of hosting can also provide in built firewalls and may offer users virus protection from viral or hackers.

With VPS cloud hosting services, there are multiple tiered plans that are usually offered by host companies. These plans range from the entry level budget hosting plan, up to the more resource hungry business and enterprise plans. The budget plans usually offer the most economical option. It offers a reasonable amount of memory usually 128 or 256MB, disk storage, processing power and bandwidth at a reasonable price per month. The options are then tiered systematically in terms of memory, bandwidth, processing power and disk storage. The choice depends solely on you intended use, the data on the website and your budget. These hosting plans allow you to gradually increase your hosting requirements in a stepped approach as and when you grow and require a more powerful virtual server.

There are other advantages that make VPS cloud hosting different from other kinds of hosting which include;

Added Security

By using a VPS server, your site is not affected by any of the other sites on the same platform. If any of the other sites is hacked, or damaged by viruses, yours is safe and are kept away from the brunt of such damages. This not only gives you peace of mind but increases the time you have to deal with other more pressing issues in your line of business.

Easy Changeover

There is no need for you to move everything to a new hardware the instance you require more resources. The VPS cloud hosting allows you to access the needed resources in a jiffy through your hosts support. In fact, your host should be able to add one or more resources to you the instance you need it.

Increased Uptime

With other forms of web hosting, the chances that your site will experience some level of downtime are relatively high. Any single moment your website is on a downtime, you loose a considerable amount of traffic to a competing site which is up. With VPS cloud hosting UK, you are guaranteed that your web server will be up, it receives the allocated resources and that your site remains online.

Server Access

With cloud hosting your server is housed on a fault tolerant SAN cloud storage system with clustered servers. Reducing any chance of a down time and making sure that your site is running optimally and efficiently. With the structure you also have the added benefit of a high disk IOPS that enhance the performance of your site.

Saves on time

VPS hosting solutions helps save several hours of hard work trying to keep your web server up to date and running fine. There is no need for you to crack your head with routine maintenance checks on the server or cleaning it up. This is because your server will automatically be updated whenever there are any updates available for it. The ability of the server to automatically update itself means that you can concentrate on other things like getting traffic to your site or selling products with no worries at all.

The Difference Between VPS and VPS Cloud Hosting

Web masters have a wide array of platforms via which they can host their websites from. This, in most cases, depends with their immediate needs as well as their budget. One of the highly sought after web hosting plans that take care of the shortcomings of shared hosting is Virtual Private Server hosting. Most people find VPS hosting ideal because it is one of the most basic for most skill levels. Furthermore, most web hosting companies offer a wide range of plans to take care of varied requirements of the users. Initially, the VPS hosting servers used one server whose resource consumption was high. As a result, particular web developers would be allocated resources based on their usage as well as their size.

It is because of the challenges posed by the old process that VPS cloud hosting was introduced. VPS cloud hosting uses various servers that are linked and function together so as to enhance their functionality to the users. It is worth noting that every plan has features that are crafted to suit the needs of the customers.

The Choice

The first blunder a company can commit when setting up an online business is to end up with the wrong hosting plan. That is not all, it is even worse if the plan is being rendered by an incompetent web hosting company. For smooth running of your business, and on a squeezed budget, you may find VPS cloud hosting an ideal choice. Cloud VPS hosting has the capability to accommodate massive utilization of the resources. This is made possible through the integration and utilization of several network servers that are accessed in one massive unit by the users.

If you happen to experience a lot of traffic to your website or anticipate an upsurge in future, then VPS cloud hosting is the best solution. Cloud hosting in general is currently being resorted to because of its flexibility and competitive pricing.

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But, running your own server even if it helps make your office more efficient, can be expensive to buy, manage, house and run. This is where the ability to virualise servers, or even VPS Cloud servers (VPS hosting running off of Cloud storage) can be very cost effective, especially if they are being run out of a data centre and being managed by a web hosting provider.
A quick recap: what is hosting? Web hosting is a service that provides customer or clients a use of a dedicated server, shared server or virtual server with a stable internet connection and access to the world wide web. VPS hosting is an especially popular form of hosting as it provides some of the best advantages of shared hosting, such as low price, and of dedicated servers, which are used by single client only and thus provide high level of service.
There are many VPS offerings including those with control panels such as Parallels Plesk that can be used to start and manage your server right away. VPS hosting offers can be roughly divided into managed hosting, unmanaged and unmetered hosting.
Managed hosting can be more expensive than other types of VPS, but it has some undeniable advantages, too. Highly skilled system administrators will be looking after your server 24/7 and solve the problems quickly. Your server will be connected to a high-speed Internet line with the capacity via the largest telecommunications companies, such as BT, AT&T, Verizon and a multitude of other Tier 1 service providers.

VPS Web Hosting Plans

With VPS hosting, you are able to host large web projects, online radio servers, video streaming, multiplayer games, or your very own personal server running your favorite operating system to do with as you wish. But as we are focusing this article on VPS hosting for small and medium businesses it is worth mentioning here that they can be use to run your work servers as if they were still in your office.

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When looking for a VPS Hosting provider there are a few things that we believe you should look for;

1. Quality of hardware used
2. Reliability and uptime
3. Quality of bandwidth
4. Service and support
5. Availability of burstable ram

Quality of Hardware used

Multiple VPS platforms run on partitioned hardware nodes so the quality of the hardware it runs on is imperative. It is always good to check the quality of the processors and hard disks since the hardware will be more heavily used then in a normal dedicated hosted environment as their will be 10′s of instances concurrently running. This should be the first thing you check.

Reliability and Uptime

If your hosting provider is using good reliable hardware this should be a given.  You should look for hosting provider that provides more than 99.9% uptime especially if you are running a Windows VPS platform where the chance of downtime is increased.

Quality of bandwidth

There is no point in having excellent hardware and reliable uptime if your datacentre or hosting provider’s connections are down.  Look for multi tier 1 BGP routed bandwidth to reduce the risk of any one ISP connections being down.

Service and Support

Sooner or later you’ll need the help and support of your hosting provider, make sure that the staff are knowledgeable and helpful. Like all insurance policies this is something you may never need but if and when you do, it is best to make sure that it is the best you can find.

Availability of Burstable RAM

If you are running a Linux VPS, this may prove to be a life saver as Burstable RAM is a temporary fix that kicks in in emergencies when you have a spike in traffic to your site, for example if someone has dugg, or stumbleuponed your site.  Although this is great news in that it will bring more patronage to your site, it can also overload and possibly crash your site. If your Linux VPS has burstable RAM until you increase your dedicated RAM or your traffic eases back.

We hope you find these useful, feel free to leave some comments and any additional ideas that we may have overlooked.

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We often here from clients who say something along the lines of; “My site is currently running on a shared hosting package running WordPress and we are starting to get over 3000 visitors and slowing down my site should we move over to VPS Hosting and if so what should we host on?”

First things first, before upgrading your hosting package and/ or moving your site we would suggest first checking to see that your wordPress is fully optimised as it can be a bit of resource hog.  Make sure that you’ve optimised your MySQL configuration and your plugins.

But as your site grows sooner or later you will need to move over to a more powerful system, and for the blogging community the VPS platform is an excellent half way house between the dedicated world and the shared hosting world.

We would always suggest using a Linux VPS platform rather than a windows one as you would save both on licensing fees and because the Linux kernel is more memory efficient and you would need less memory.

As a first step we would suggest you host on a 256MB Linux VPS system, if you are new to managing your own platforms then I would suggest getting a control panel, and the Plesk Power pack.  With the Plesk power pack you would be able to easily install and configure your WordPress platform with having to troll the forums for help, and thus save your self the managed VPS hosting fees, well worth the small price charged by most hosting providers for it.

Once you are on the VPS platform you are able to scale up or down your platform to correspond with growth and any seasonal variations in your site traffic. Perfect for all those bloggers who are slowly growing their site.

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For some people this may be the best solution, but for others who may only be using 5 or at most 10% of their peak server needs it may not be the most cost effective solution for them.

As the cost of processing power, and storage come down, and the costs of power keep rising the benefits of a VPS hosting solution is proving to be a better and better option for more and more people and should always be looked into.

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The event was billed as a chance for businesses and developers to meet and debate the future implications and potential power of the cloud. Talks were held by many featured guests, including author Geoffrey Moore and Morgan Stanley MD Mary Meeker.

Scientist Janine Benyus was also on hand to discuss the outside implications of virtual hosting in a talk titled ‘Beyond IT‘.

The day was rounded off with a joint speech and chat with Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Forbes National editor Quentin Hardy. See their talk here along with the other Atmosphere speeches at Google Events’ YouTube page.

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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 solutions having considered taking the plunge.

Analysts have argued that, as well due to increased media coverage of the business, time-management and green credentials of adopting virtualised hosting, that the reason behind the change of heart is that several of the IT big boys (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) were embracing the cloud openly.

However, despite the security concerns and wishes for better integration with existing systems that many firms seemed to have, a report (http://www.mimecast.com/events-press/press-releases/article/view/70-percent-of-companies-using-cloud-based-services-plan-to-move-additional-applications-to-the-cloud/396/) from US email management service Mimecast found that, of the ones who did take the plunge, 70% were planning on extending their SaaS usage, moving additional data and information onto the cloud and virualised environements.

As the representatives from Mimecast put it: “This shows that respondents that have used cloud-based solutions have seen their business and operational value and want to expand that success to other application areas.”

The top three sectors that the study found were embracing virtualised computing were also interesting, as they were also among those most sceptical about the merits of hosted solutions.

The report found that 76% of firms in financial services were wary of SaaS due to security fears, but the industry was the second biggest adopter of the cloud, with 40% having moved data onto online backup services.

In addition, 68% of those financial firms who had already adopted hosted solutions were among those who were planning on migrating additional data to the service.

The legal sector represented the third biggest investment in SaaS, with 37% of companies utilising the technology.

However, while this represented a lower overall stake in moving data online, a whopping 81% of those legal firms who took up cloud solutions were increasing their budgets for it.

Interestingly, the biggest adoption rate for cloud computing solutions came from the IT sector, with 53% of techies jumping onto the hosted bandwagon and three quarters of those increasing their connections to SaaS.

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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 for most clients.

The medical screening company, a medical insurance screening provider was a client that started off life on a Linux VPS platform and migrated on to ever more powerful VPS hosting platforms until finally migrated over to a dedicated system as their marketing, brand awareness and traffic numbers rapidly increased.

At the appropriate time we were able to quickly and seemlessly migrate them over to their own dedicated envrionment.

Arsenal Insider, an Arsenal online fan blog, was another similar client who initially started off on our VPS hosting platform, moved to another provider when they came up against the VPS constraints to reduce their costs, but came back to host with us on our dedicated servers thanks to our attention to detail excellent infrastructure and connectivity and award winning customer service.

We find that Virtual Private Servers are an excellent way for clients to move away from shared hosting and grow their business before migrating over to the costlier dedicated hosting needs.

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Burstable memory
The amount of memory that can be used by your virtual machine should you run out of your “guaranteed memory”.  Burstable memory is only available if there is available free memory on the virtual private server node.

Control panel
A control panel is a web based interface that allows you to administor your server through a GUI (Graphic User Interface) rather than through the command line.

Command line
This is a blank screen with a prompt similar to DOS or a command line interpreter or shell that allows the administrator to directly type in line commands to allow the system to run.  Most users user and prefer GUI Control panels like Plesk and cPanel as there is less chance of an error.

File System
A system for storing files on the hard drive in such a way that only your hosting package(s) can utilise/ have access to your files.  This is superior and more secure than shared hosting where everyone is on the same file system and theoretically go into areas where they should not.

Apache
Apache or Appache HTTP Server is an open source web server program that in 2009 was the first powers in excess of 100 million, and serves almost half of all websites and the majority of linux servers. Apache is often used because of its excellent performance, reliability, security features and that it is free.

Plesk Control Panel
Plesk is both a Linux and Windows GUI web hosting contrl panel that provides you the control and responsibility of managing your web site and all aspects of your email, backups, files, FTP, and a raft of other Plesk specific applications such as the web application vault.

cPanel Control Panel
cPanel is a linux based web hosting GUI control panel that provides you most of the control and responsibility of managing your web site and all aspects of your email, CGI scripts, backups, files, FTP and web site statistics.

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After you have transfered your domain sucessfuly to your hosting providers servers it will take between 15 minutes and 24 hours to propagate around the world (may take upto 48 hours in same extreme instances). During the propagation period your newly transferred domain is being updated by the various Internet providers around the world.

Whilst waiting for your site to proporgate you can log in to your Plesk account through the log in details you received from your hosting provider and begin creating your POP3 accounts. Even though you may have setup your mail service, your new accounts will not be detected until your domain has been fully propegated. Mail servers sometimes take up to 24 hours longer than HTTP services. So even if your website’s domain name is visible on the web, your mail server may not be fully propegated.

Creating your POP3 email accounts?

1. Log in to your Plesk Control Panel using the details provided through email by your hosting provider
2. Click on your domain name.
3. Click the Mail icon
4. Click the Add New Mail Name icon
5. Enter the account name and password, then click the
   OK

How do I setup my POP3 email accounts in my Mail client such as Outlook?

Once you’ve created your POP3 account within Plesk, you can then set up the account in your preferred Mail Client, or you can read your Mail using the WebMail service provided by most hosting providers. To set up your account in a Mail client like Outlook, use the following settings:

1. usernameYour Username is the full email address, including the domain name, of the account you created. E.g. info@yourdomainname.com
2. passwordYour Password is the password you entered when you created the account in Plesk
3. Incoming Mail server (POP3)Your Incoming Mail server (POP3)is mail.domainname.com where domainname.com is your actual website domain name
4. Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)

Your Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) is the same as your ISP’s outgoing mail server. Use the same setting provided by your Internet service provider to avoid problems delivering email. Most Virus and SPAM conscious ISPs now require you to use their outgoing Mail server to help reduce the proliferation of viruses and eliminate SPAM.

Using WebMail to read and send email online

You must make sure WebMail is enabled within your Plesk Mail Preferences. To enable WebMail :

1. Log in to your Plesk Control Panel using the details provided in the receipt sent to you via email.
2. Click on your domain name.
3. Click the Mail icon
4. Click the Preferences icon
5. Ensure WebMail is checked, then click the
   OK

To send or read email using WebMail :

1. Log in to your Plesk Control Panel using the details provided in the receipt sent to you via email.
2. Click on your domain name.
3. Click the Mail icon
4. Click the icon and log in using the POP3 email account’s Username and Password.If you see a icon instead, you must enable WebMail

You have now created a seperate email administration panel within Plesk to enter it, visit the URL https://your-domain.com:8443 type the email address into the login box, and the password for that particular mail box in the password box and click login. You now are able to utilise your webmail.

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