subject: The Benefits Of Linux Vps Hosting [print this page] Anyone who owns a complex website, with thousands of unique visitors and consistently high traffic, will likely tell you that they would prefer that site to be on a dedicated server.
A dedicated server is a single physical server which is set aside entirely for the hosting of your website. With dedicated servers by EUKHost, we offer clients either the chance to manage the server themselves remotely, or allow us to manage the server for them.
However, although a dedicated server could be considered the "Holy Grail" for large-scale, websites, they are also one of the most expensive services, and sometimes it's helpful to have a compromise between affordability and the ideal.
Such a compromise exists with Linux VPS Hosting, an affordable solution for website hosting from EUKHost.
VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. 'Virtual' refers here to the increasingly popular process of virtualisation, in which a complete, standalone machine is created entirely in software, on a physical host computer.
There are advantages in going down the Linux VPS route, especially if you have chosen web hosting by EUKHosts.
The most striking advantage is the cost saving over choosing a physical dedicated server. Virtual Private Servers are considerably more affordable than dedicated servers, yet you will still see many of the benefits of having a physical dedicated server.
Your VPS will be completely independent of any other machines on the hosting computer, and as robust and secure as any physical server.
The Linux operating system, which is open-source, and effectively free, will also help keep costs down.
Finally, you can be guaranteed that a high level of technical and server admin support from our expert data centre teams, who will treat your VPS with the identical level respect afforded to physical dedicated servers.
