Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Motivations To Choose A Virtual Server Rather Than A Dedicated Server

By Jenny Marcia Irwin


It has not been many years and VPS has taken over the needs of many small and medium sized businesses since it helps bridge the limitations that are associated with both shares hosting and dedicated web hosting. While the latter has a vast resources that make it expensive to operate, the former has many deficiencies which may affect the operations of your business website.

UK VPS hosting environment is a secure one that comes about when the server is partitioned using a partitioning software and each business given its own portion. The layers function independently and do not have any relationship with other layers that are situated besides them. These layers work as if they are in a system of networked servers.

This approach to hosting business websites is not only secure but also provides high levels of safety and security hence making it better than shared systems. With this hosting option getting popular these days, you could wonder what benefits are available over dedicated hosting. The benefits are many and diverse and any business can immensely benefit from it.

It is possible to host many domains in one platform. This are an important features since a business that has a registered domain hosted in virtual hosting environment have the chance to have many domains hosted in the same environment without additional fees. While doing this, the site does not suffer from any setback since the operations of you site are not affected at all. This is very important in the long since it offers more resources at a cost that is manageable.

Also, there is no better hosting method that helps cut costs like VPS. The overall costs spend to maintain it is lower that what is spend in dedicated environment. The resources offered are just adequate for your needs and so there is no way that you will need to pay excessive amounts of money for capacity that you do not use. Take for instance when you are in your own environment and you have less than a thousand visitors in a day, of what use is the excess capacity? The number of resources the user gets are many at a price that is a fraction of what could have been paid for a dedicated hosting. There is no need for the hefty tag that comes with it in terms of cost. With the costs coming down faster due to higher competition, you get a service at a price that is a fraction of the actual amount.

Unlike in dedicated server environment, virtual host is ideal for small, businesses that do not have very many transactions. Due to this fact, it does not make any sense spending money on this type of a host yet it is possible to enjoy all the benefits that a dedicated hosting environment offers when you have a VPS. It is only huge companies that transact a lot of business like the ones in New York stock exchange(NYSE) which use gigantic hosting space that may need the services of dedicated hosting.

Although the level of performance and reliability offered by dedicated environment is pretty higher, the difference it has with virtual hosting is not very significant. The difference with virtual server host is not much yet the cost difference is staggering.




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