Huh? VPS of Dedicated?

August 20, 2010 by Garen
Filed under: Choosing The Best Web Host

VPS vs Dedicated ( The Best Web Hosting Service )- Ok, I know what you are thinking. My site is loading way too slow and I am on a shared hosting package. Maybe the shared hosting plan is a problem. As you are are getting way to many SQL request and your site is taking forever to load. To make it worse maybe you have gotten that dreaded message from your hosting provider. It states that you are making other customers unhappy and they are requesting that you upgrade to VPS or even dedicated. (its the polite way of asking rather than canning your site!) However, always call them and talk to them as people do this sometimes as a spoof to get your personal information.

So you are probably wondering should I upgrade to a VPS or dedicated server. Kind of bitter sweet, you know you work so hard to get your site a lot of traffic, and bam you need to upgrade. The good news is you are getting more traffic, but the bad news is you are going to have to pay more money.

So in short, VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and is your next option after deciding to do away with shared hosting. It is generally a lot cheaper than dedicated and runs at $30-$100 per month. What is different about VPS is you have root access to your server (which is just a complicated term for a simple way to run your server without having to manage the hardwares configurations.

So VPS is really a dedicated server, however you only have part of the resources (CPU, RAM, ect.). This is achieved by a process called “layers”. No this is the not the same, as a number of layers on your 7 layer taco (that they have at Taco Bell.) At the base of this layer you will have a your operating system, and then following that is your virtualization layer with a proprietary file system and a kernel service abstraction layer that ensures isolation and also your site security.

Huh? So what does all this mumble jumble mean anyways? Well the main difference between a VPS and dedicated is that with a dedicated server you will be sharing physical resources (but they are on a dedicated server). So to put in black in white go with shared until you need more resources than go with VPS, and if you are really needing a ton of resources go with dedicated. You can save yourself a lot of money by waiting until you really need it. Trust me!

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