Surfing the internet, I have noticed that in industry, lots of website are dealing with virtual private servers or VPS and most of the sites provides their advantages and disadvantages. But, none of them have offered any practical information about the pros and cons of Dedicated Servers and VPS.
Having knowledge about VPS is always useful, but if you can’t compare it versus other hosting types, then you won’t be able to notice what’s good for your specific online business and what’s not. So I decided to bring to light the advantages and disadvantages of virtual private servers, not by providing hard definitions and a cold list of features, but actually by listing the differences with other available hosting alternatives. In this article, I’m going to compare the Pros and the Cons of Dedicated Servers and Virtual Private Servers (VPS).
The Pros
The first thing that gets people’s attention is the price of VPS. Less expensive than dedicated servers, VPS are a good choice for those people who are looking to set up a website that will be complex enough to render a shared hosting solution useless, but that will not yet deal with a large amount of visitors or huge database needs, and therefore won’t require the full power of a dedicated server.
The capabilities and features of VPS make’s them very similar to dedicated servers in certain aspects, especially when it comes to software and custom-made component installation. In this sense, VPS are as flexible as dedicated servers, allowing a much deeper control of advanced administrative tasks, like configuration and assignment of resources.
The independent, isolated, standalone nature of virtual private servers makes them ideal for testing purposes: a website can be fully tested in a VPS by a small group of people before it is made available for the general public. This also makes them suitable for testing software applications, especially those made for servers; and to securely run software that is suspected of being malicious or contain viruses. For this reason, virtual private servers are vastly used in companies’ intranets.
The Cons
The disadvantages of a VPS become visible when dealing with high-demanding sites. Since a virtual private server is essentially a form of shared server, the resources of the physical hosting computer are all the hosted VPS, which may lead to an unbalance in the bandwidth and processor power if one of these VPS is in a heavy load condition, or is aggressively performing hardware-eager tasks like very complex calculations or big-bulk database operations.
Also, it is important to keep in mind that virtual private servers are often created in bulks, with a single computer hosting a lot of them. In extreme conditions (i.e. when a computer hosts too many VPS), this may force the system to work very close to its limits, decreasing the durability of the hardware components.
Every solution has its goods and bads, and the first thing you should do before you choose your hosting plan is to take your own business’ present and future requirements into consideration.
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This post was written by admin on June 14, 2009
