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A Newbie’s Guide to Virtualized Private Servers
As a business owner, it makes sense to get the most secured hosting at the lowest cost. After all, a site’s reliability and speed can determine how long your visitors stay and if they come back at all.
There used to be two options for website owners - shared hosting and dedicated hosting. Most sites used shared hosting. When a site owner chooses shared hosting, his or her website will reside on a partitioned web server, which is a very powerful computer with the resources to handle a lot of files to be accessible via the web. Shared hosting is the cheapest option, but it can also be the most unreliable as it requires a site to share a finite amount of resources with other sites. If one of those sites is getting hit with a lot of traffic, your site’s performance can suffer. If someone on the same server accidentally writes a programming script that takes the server down, it could also take your site down. This is okay if you are running a hobby site, but it can be trouble if your website makes you money.
Dedicated hosting gives you a lot of space and processing power since you will not be sharing a server with anyone. This is a very expensive option as you will be incurring the costs of that server on your own.
Using a virtual private server (VPS) is a happy medium between using shared and dedicated hosting. Through the technology of virtualization, a hosting company’s system administrators can segment a server so that each section behaves like its own independent server. Each segment can choose its own operating system, reboot independently of the others, and as a specific dedicated amount of resources allocated to it. Those using a VPS do not have to worry if a website on the same server has a surge in traffic or if careless snippet of code makes a server crash. The segment you use acts independently of the other sites on the same server. Website owners using a virtualized private server can choose to host one or many sites on the same segment.
A VPS is the perfect option for the business owner who depends on his or her site to be as reliable and efficient as possible, but doesn’t need the massive amounts of hard drive space and processing power of a dedicated server. It offers reliability, speed, and flexibility without the cost.
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