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Do You Need VPS Hosting?

If you are still wondering about when is the right time for you to move your website to VPS, let me give you some suggestions. If you hit one or more of these points, then you should move to VPS.

When your site have become popular and received a lot of visitors and your hosting provider giving you a warning about your site is using too much CPU. Although maybe you don’t have a high volume of visitors, but your website is taking too much CPU resource like having a wordpress blog with too many plugins, you should move to VPS hosting

You need a server with a special server configuration or special set of software which in general can’t be found in shared hosting. This is true especially if you are a web developer, web developers usually need a special configuration and software installed on the server that they need in order for their web projects to run because VPS is a private server you are free to configure it and install whatever applications you might need.

You have a website with plenty of multimedia content that need a lot of space, although some shared hosting offer unlimited disk space that does not guarantee they can provide what they promise.

You are a person who loves to configure things, VPS will be a heaven for you who love to configure stuff. Try the unmanaged VPS hosting, and configure it as you like, start from the operating system, working services, installing programs, updating and setting up system security that should keep your hands full.

VPS is more expensive than shared hosting, but if your website demands more resource than your shared hosting can give, you should move it to VPS than taking the risk of losing your visitors or customers. Remember though in VPS hosting you are still sharing resource with other account although not as much as shared hosting, in VPS one host server usually running 3-10 accounts compared to shared hosting where you are sharing server resource with probably more than 300 accounts.

What is VPS Hosting

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a dedicated section of a Web server which is divided or partitioned into several parts to operate like multiple Web servers. Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are considered the next step up from Shared Hosting, and a step below Dedicated Hosting.

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) gives the user complete control over the dedicated section of the machine, which acts as its own operating system.

Advantages of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are:

• Users have full administrative access (root access) to their section.

• Accounts are isolated (to some extent) from other accounts on the same Web Server.

• Hardware and network infrastructures are maintained by the Virtual Private Servers (VPS) hosting provider.

• Virtual Private Servers (VPS) hosting is less expensive than Dedicated Server hosting plans.

Disadvantages of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are:

• Virtual Private Servers (VPS) hosting is more expensive than Shared Hosting plans, meaning VPS is cost-effective only if the allotted space is used.

• Users are responsible for some of the server-side administration, such as application installation and maintenance.
• Users who don’t have the necessary skills may have to hire someone to administer their Virtual Private Servers (VPS).
• Hardware assets such as CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O are still shared.

If you don’t secure your Virtual Private Servers (VPS) properly, it may be open to hackers.

Types of VPS Solutions

• HyperV

• OpenVZ

• VMware

• Xen

• VDSmanager

• Parallels Virtuozzo