subject: A few facts to be known about Virtual Server hosting [print this page] A few facts to be known about Virtual Server hosting
A Virtual Private Server (VPS), also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS), provides the features of a dedicated server for multiple web hosting customers in the form of "virtual computers". This technology allows web site owners to share the costs of dedicated web server with other users, but it gives the website owner total control over his/her own applications installed and run on the web server. Therefore this is a kind of web hosting which combines the best features of shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting into a single hosting package.
You share the resources with other users on the server but the thing is you never come to know that there are other users present because you don't actually have to share your own resources. The resources are allocated in such a way that the resources that you use will only be available to you. You feel like you have been given an entire dedicated server. This is a very good alternative to a dedicated hosting package where clients want total control over their resources, don't want to share their server with anyone, but at the same time don't need an entire dedicated server for themselves.
It has all advantages of a dedicated server on a smaller scale. Even if a certain website on that server is hacked, other websites on the server are safe and intact. If a VDS on the same physical server crashes, the other accounts on the server are protected and remain unaffected. The VDS allows small Internet providers to set up their individual hosting application while avoiding them extra costs relating to the hosting platform and a need to worry about the server operation.
