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Okay so, you might be one of this internet users who ‘ve started some online businesses and consider a shared web hosting is enough for you, or at least enough so far. Well, that would be me included.
Just FYI, Shared hosting is allowing more than thousands of users to host each and every sites they own at an absolutely reasonable cost. While shared hosting has draw backs such as all resources like disk spaces, bandwidth and CPU resources gotta be shared with others, it still is ain ‘t problem for small or medium kind of online business sites.
The next limitation would be your lack of control of some part of software such as mail servers, http servers, operating system choices, compiling programs, setting up firewalls or setting up spam filters. Nope. You ‘d never get those kind of privileged while you ‘re on shared hosting.
Some might say “Like I ‘d even need to do those things! Nah, I won’t bother to even thought about it.” Well, yea, most of us — I may included here — not even got any interests being involved to those above and leave it as is for the web hosting provider to handle.
Virtual Private Server Becomes Handy
So for you who ‘s in to all things “Control” and “More Control” over your sites and server environments with its whole self management thingy, something they ‘ve invented back there called Virtual Private Server should be your way out.
Let ‘s leave out the definition kind of thing to Wikipedia, here we go :
A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.
The practice of partitioning a single server so that it appears as multiple servers has long been common practice in mainframe computers, but has seen a resurgence lately with the development of virtualization software and technologies for other architectures. [ Wikipedia - Virtual Private Server ]
Here ‘s what it reads in english:
It’s physically a server which already being divided – using software – into some virtual machines. Where each virtual machine act as one independent dedicated server. Physical resources like as CPU, RAM, also disk spaces still are shared. But each and everyone of ‘em acts independently beside others. Each and everyone of ‘em could have operating system differently. And can also be configured in as many way as possible.
What ‘s So Great About it Above Shared?
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Real Administrator Access
Okay, this first would be all about “Control”. Having administrator access to the root of each of their own virtual server. This would be the kind of access where an administrator could install or even delete software, creating accounts, setting up permissions, all in all — all things a “real” administrator of a “real” server could do.
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The More Secure Part
Virtual Private Server is indeed more secure than a shared hosting. Shared hosting is having a same operating system for all websites on that server. The real downside of it would be when some malicious cracker wrecked an access to the root of this server, he could do nasty things to any of websites within. VPS is on a different play. Each VPS is sort of invisible to the others, so there would be no way to gain access of others from one hacked vps account. Yea, it ‘s the “More Secure” part.
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Dividing Evenly
Web hosting company is still have to allocate their resources. SO this would be the part where VPS have what a Fair play. I mean, all account that being set up within a virtual private server can be divided evenly, so if there ‘re 20 accounts within, each would have 5% of total resources such disk space, CPU, bandwidth and memory allocated to a virtual private server. There would be no such thing as eating others resources. And yes, it ‘s an advantage.
While the real advantage of it is “The Control” it could also be your worst disadvantage if you ‘re not really know what you ‘re doing or even what you should be doing. You have ‘em all, the ability of everything. So if you did things wrong, you ‘d really screw your self badly.
So, the ball is really on your court now. You ‘re into “More Control” and willing to learn more on how this “more” thingy works. Roll it.
Otherwise, leave it.
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I wondered what was the best or easiest hosting platform to use. I have used quite a lot of dedicated servers, linux, windows using both apache and iis but at the moment I am liking the Dreamhost system. For web developers who need to cut costs and time this is a must. If anyone has a better solution please let me know.
Also in your opinion what do you think is better i.e. a Virtual server, dedicated or using cloud which I think is the same as virtual.
Rental service in definitely a way to go for your business, so why not engage with it today.