Why to use VPS?
12 January 2007If you are confused should you choose more expensive dedicated server or VPS might suit your needs, this is the article for you.
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.
2 Responses to “Why to use VPS?”
November 4th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Nice site. Too many of the “review” sites are no such things and are clearly paid advertising. Your site hasn’t been updated in a while. I understand - no income from the site, presumably. But thanks and well done with the information that’s there.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Great tutorial, people needs to be clear on what best to use.