subject: 5 Reasons Businesses Utilise A Virtual Server To Supply Their World Wide Web Presence [print this page] 5 Reasons Businesses Utilise A Virtual Server To Supply Their World Wide Web Presence
Virtual servers work great for the web developer that is short in the pocket. Although Linux virtual servers and Windows virtual servers are the most popular, virtual servers come in many different forms. Voice servers are a popular choice for VPS hosting. Voice server hosts need to offer services all over the world in locations such as London and several places in the US. Thus, virtual servers work perfectly. The cost of renting several dedicated servers can soon add up. A VPS can be rented at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server. Website hosting is the most popular choice for virtual hosting. Particularly for specialist companies that don't quite need a dedicated server. A VPS will have redundancy in the form of a raid array and memory and CPU as and when you need to upgrade. Those that just want to host a couple of websites also take a VPS as an option. Social media apps are jumping on the virtual hosting bandwagon. Those Facebook addicts will be familiar with such apps. Facebook applications are all the craze. You can do everything from managing an army, to a record company! Again the benefit for developers is they can host these applications on a virtual hosting environment without the need to opt for an overkill dedicated server environment. Databases make use of virtual hosting. Never have all your eggs in one basket. Using a VPS keeps databases offsite and safe. Virtual hosting is very often used for DNS. I recently setup a backup DNS server at the fraction of the cost. Our main DNS is hosted onsite, but the secondary offsite. In the event our services go offline, we still have an NS2 that will serve DNS from a different network, and a different datacentre. This allows for total service! We have identified the 5 main uses for virtual servers above. If you can add any weird and wonderful things you have utilised them for, please do let us know below.
