- for how long company exist for - young companies might disappear or have stratup problems. If they disappear they could wipe out your account

- is company popular or not “yourcompany vps” - how many documents it maches at the Internet, or “youcompany hosting”

- “company bad” vs “company good” at the internet and similar queries like “company sucks”, “company rocks”…

- if you are purchasing VPS for hosting of websites and would like to be ranked better, you should consider your local hosting provider - if you have website in English, Matt Cutts from Google confirmed you’ll be ranked better if you are hosted in USA or UK . Although that is only one small factor in search engine rankings, but for some people it might be important. That is the reason you might want to avoid European based VPS and currently hosteurope.de is still my choice due to pricing.

- beware that there are some fake reviews at the Internet, forums…. someone from the company posts good review, than someone from competitors post bad review about them… there are bunch of small VPS companies around… and few big… It might make sense to stick to big company (khum, I recently changed my IT career from big company to startup, why do I say that .

Anyway, I’m still doing Java software development and at the moment VPS seems to be the only reasonable hosting solution and for that I need VPS with at least 768 MB of dedicated RAM for tomcat and MySQL I’m using… Look carefully for resources hosting company provides, since some provides very little memory with they plans, or memory in their offer is burstable (not guaranteed). Some companies also tend to provide low hard drive or traffic … so you have to know which resources you need. However I would be amazed that some people actually buy 128MB VPS for web hosting . What do you think?

Uptime: 9/10

Support: 9/10

Good reviews around!

They are a little bit too expensive for OpenVZ.

Uptime: 6/10

Support : 4/10

Complains about wiping entire accounts and unable to cancel their services.

Their pricing is among better, although some european VPS servers are still cheaper at the moment.

Speed : 8/10

Support : 7/10

Price : 6/10 - the price is in pounds and in the moment is ok due to low pound comparing to other currencies.
They claim that their response times for support are within 10-20 minutes. Some people claim that company is the joke.

Uptime : 5/10

Speed : 5/10

Price : 5/10

There are mixed opinions about bodhost. At the moment some other hosting providers provide better pricing and some people at forums complain about uptime. Some users are satisfied with uptime.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS, sometimes called Virtual Dedicated Servers - VDS or just virtual servers) are becoming more and more popular as hosting choice at the Internet.

VPS is acronym for virtual private server - it looks to you as a real server, you could do with it everything you can do with the real server, but in the reality one server is shared among several or many virtual servers. Some software technologies for VPS have very little overhead (under 5%), but some other have overhead up to 60%, but still if computer where these virtual servers are physicly hosted is very strong, these VPS might be quite fast.

If you start your new web site for whom you need some custom software and therefore shared hosting cannot suit your needs you have to possible solutions : dedicated server of virtual private servers (VPS). But, VPS might be up to 10 times less expensive, and there are some decent offers which starts as low as 15$ a month at this moment. Also, the price for VPS lower as time goes on. New and cheaper software technologies which allows building of VPS servers are made which allows VPS providers to lower their price for VPS servers.

For majority of small business dedicated server is not needed and VPS would suit their needs and lower hosting expenses.

Note that when your site your website you probably won’t have large amount of queries and visitors and therefore you won’t need much computation power and VPS might perfectly suit your needs. VPS is usuall good solution for each webserver which is not heavily loaded. And sometimes even if you have heavily loaded server VPS might be enough if your web application doesn’t have performance botlenecks.

Some companies uses VPS as a testing servers or backup servers and for production they use more faster dedicted servers.

So, let me conclude - VPS is excellent choise for startup websites, testing servers and backup servers for many Internet websites.

VPSs(Virtual Private Servers) have higher hardware utilization rate.
They are cheaper since they have less power electricity costs than physical servers.

Maintenance of VPS is more expensive, since administrators needs more knowledge for administration VPS related technologies like Xen, Virtuozzo or OpenVZ. Moreover, all maintenance on many systems they must perform in short amount of time.

Security is more complex in VPS than in dedicated servers. There are two layers of security : physical server security and VPS based security. VPS monitoring is more difficult than monitoring dedicated servers.

VPS needs usually more expensive drivers like multi-port network adapters and other related equipment like UTP cables and switches.

VPS providers usually need more IP addresses than providers of dedicated servers. If one has 100 physical computers with 20 VPS on each it is still 2000 IP addresses. Physical system which runs many VPS might have very high packets per second (PPS) in network.

There are sometimes advantages in software license with having VPS.

VPS nowadays have usually very little overhead (less than 5%) on some modern virtualization software. But, disk I/O performances might be slow due to more disk fragmentation and number of different request at the same time. At the another way, if VPS provider use RAID5 or other controllers, in case of peak use, VPS might have much better hard disk performance than average dedicated server.