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Making A Final Choice Between VPS And Dedicated Servers

2015-03-06by Paul Johnson

In our progressive age, most people can't imagine their lives without various useful gadgets and Internet. With their help, users got an opportunity not only to entertain themselves, but also study, perform different transactions and negotiate with important business partners. To provide visitors with excellent experience in such fields, website owners usually carefully research online customers' needs and preferences before launching their online business projects. Thanks to this fact, each of us can boast of having a particular list of favorite bookmarks in his web browser. However, plenty of modern websites still possess weak points, which may lead to significant costs and even total business collapse. As a rule, such factors, as poor performance, regular inaccessibility, long loading website pages and slow working services and applications, make visitors leave problem websites and look for more reliable ones. Every day, a number of unsuccessful online startups only increases and thousands of website owners have to stop their activities for a long period of time. So, if your website faces with one of these problems, then it's high time to think about changing your current hosting plan.

The market of hosting services is full of tempting hosting offers and different hosting companies, which will try to persuade you to buy their production. Therefore, opting for a hosting package, you should thoroughly research its features and also define your website ones, to find a powerful and reliable server for your website. Website owners, who are not sophisticated in the web hosting area, risk to buy inappropriate and expensive hosting plans, thus they may both lose essential parts of their budgets and harm their online projects. In this article I will shed some light on differences between two of well-known hosting solutions: VPS and Dedicated servers.

 

VPS Hosting

A physical server, segregated into multiple virtual servers, is considered to be called VPS (virtual private server). Each virtual server is independent from its neighbors and operates as a simple separate server. A VPS server possesses its own operating system and resources, such as hard disk and memory space, CPU power and bandwidth. A VPS user has got the right to install to a server any programs and applications he likes, but he will share a part of server resources with other VPS users. It may seem that a VPS server is quite similar to a dedicated one, but it would be more correctly to call it an intermediate stage between shared and dedicated hosting plans. This means that a user gets a server with a control system of a dedicated server, but at a shared hosting price. 

 

VPS Server Advantages

Website owners, wishing to upgrade their current hosting plans to VPS, should pay much attention to the following hosting aspects:

 

- improved functionality and reliability – as VPS servers don't share all their resources with others compared to shared servers, so you shouldn't be afraid of unexpected and long downtimes;

- scalable resources – buying VPS hosting plans, you will get your own dedicated resources, but your needs may grow with time and your website will need more speed and performance to handle with high loads. In such cases, any VPS user is also able to order as many additional resources as he requires on his own, without help of a system administrator. This is very comfortable and cost-effective, as website owners don't have to buy expensive hosting plans and pay only for resources they use;

- complete control – as a rule, VPS servers provide users with root access accounts. With their help, website owners will be able to modify configurations of their servers, manage server processes, make reboots and provide servers with various software and applications according to their preferences;

- managed backups - using this option, users can perform regular backups of their valuable data at any time and restore all required files and information in short terms. This is especially important, if your website possesses a large number of return clients or your web hosting provider's network shows particular failures time after time.

 

Dedicated Hosting

A dedicated server is a single physical server, which is rent by a single user and serves only his needs. In the other words, you will get a separate server at your total disposal that will provide you with exclusive rights to all its resources. Moreover, you will be able to control all server operations without any problems. This hosting solution is rather suitable for companies, which plan to interact with a large number of Internet visitors.

 

Dedicated Server Advantages

If you noticed that your website can't cope with increasing online visitor flows, then it's high time to opt for a dedicated server. Usually, dedicated hosting plans include further features:

 

- steady performance – you can be sure that all your website applications and services will operate correctly without any failures, as nobody will be able to steal your dedicated server resources. In modern competitive conditions, 100% uptime is a very crucial factor for attracting and retaining online visitors;

- management options – one of the best ways to get useful skills and knowledge in the server management area, is to rent a dedicated server. Being a dedicated server user, you will be able to customize and maintain your server, as well as allot its resources between the most important website programs and applications;

- security – dedicated servers are considered to be the most protected hosting solutions, as nobody except their users and hosting companies possess access to them. Nevertheless, dedicated servers can boast of possessing premium and reliable firewalls, which will protect your online business activity from possible hacker attacks;

- unique IP address – besides of getting dedicated resources, you will also get an individual IP (Internet protocol) address, which will come in handy, if you want to promote your website or organize a marketing campaign. Furthermore, using your own IP address, you don't risk to find your website in the black list of searching engines one day. This may happen if you use VPS of shared hosting plans, where wrong actions of a single user may affect and spoil activities of other users.

 

As you can see, choosing a hosting plan is not so easy task as it may seem. Before making a final decision, I advise you to find out your website positions and budget limitations, as a wrong made choice can cost you future revenues and even reputation. Would you like to add something to my article? Feel free to leave your comments below.

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Paul Johnson

KickAssVps

Paul Johnson is a marketing manager at KickAssVps, an established provider of VPS hosting services.

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