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Advantages of Virtual Private Servers, or VPS

Posted on June 5, 2008
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VPS (Virtual Private Servers), or commonly referred to as VPS hosting environments enables the partitioning of a high specification machine into ‘virtual’ servers. This is done by allowing multiple instances of an operating system or software to be run on the same physical server. Essentially there is one root operating system (hardware node) and using new software, in our case Virtuozzo, a Parallals product.

Using Virtuzzo, the same operating system can then be installed over the top (thus creating multiple virtual nodes). Each virtual node uses the same registry and system files to maximise efficiency and minimise memory and hard disk usage.

Each VPS, or VPS Hosting environment is completely independent of all the other VPS systems, and memory, disk space, and CPU processes can also be isolated for each Virtual Private Server. This gives you most of the benefits of a dedicated server at a far lower price, these benefits include:

  1. your own secure and separate VPS hosting environment
  2. full remote control and access of your VPS server or servers
  3. the ability to host as many sites on your ‘virtual server’ as you wish without additional charge
  4. the ability to install & configure whatever applications you wish on your VPS server
  5. enhanced control, including server reboots and backups
  6. use of high resilience servers that can be upgraded without any service interruption
  7. full anti-virus protection
  8. a Plesk control panel Interface
  9. a Virtuzzo power panel
  10. fully managed servers that include operating system updates, allowing you to focus on doing your work

With VPS hosting, you get your own secure hosting environment, complete with root access, and the ability to install and configure whatever you wish within your environment. Although there is more than one virtual server on each machine, there is no way for other users to see your VPS or even know that you are there. For those wishing to we also offer a fully functional Plesk interface for your VPS hosting.

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2 Responses to “Advantages of Virtual Private Servers, or VPS”

  1. James on June 11th, 2008 12:54 am

    What are the drawbacks of VPS Hosting? Am thinking of purchasing a VPS server rather than a dedicated one?

    Can one use Plesk within a dedicated server or is it only used on virtualized platforms?

  2. VPS Hosting Blogger on June 11th, 2008 1:52 am

    Hi James,

    It really depends on what you are looking to get out of it. For the vast majority of people a VPS platform is cost effective, and does what you are looking for. It also has some further advantages, for the more sophisticated VPS providers, the server or blade that your VPS platform is hosted on, can be migrated to another hard metal server or blade whilst the server that your VPS platform is on is brought down for routine repairs.

    The differences between dedicated hosting and VPS hosting can be a very blurry line since for most it would be hard to distinguish the difference in value and need.

    The major drawbacks would be the fact that at the very end of the day, although you have a guaranteed minimal amount of resources available to you, you are sharing the facilities so at times this may affect your performance especially if your VPS platform utilises some of the burstable resources such as the nodes CPU or memory.

    Also, as its a relatively new medium if you are new to VPS hosting then your main disadvantage will be that you may not be able to use your VPS server correctly as your relative knowledge may be a little low. Best suggestion would be to read a few VPS server tutorials and bring yourself up to speed.

    Finaly, Plesk is a control panel that can be used either on a virtualised platform or on a dedicated system.

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