Cheap Web Hosting - Reviews & Ratings » vps http://cheapwebhostinformation.com Information and Reviews about different Web Hosting Providers Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 What is a VPS – Virtual Private Server? http://cheapwebhostinformation.com/vps-hosting/what-is-a-vps-%e2%80%93-virtual-private-server.html http://cheapwebhostinformation.com/vps-hosting/what-is-a-vps-%e2%80%93-virtual-private-server.html#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:10:25 +0000 CheapWebHosting http://cheapwebhostinformation.com/?p=16 A fairly new web hosting product is the VPS or Virtual Private Server. Server Virtualization has been around since the very late 90’s, but the products started entering main stream about 3-4 years ago (2005/2006). But what exactly is a VPS? A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is the simulation of hardware by a host or server operating system. This virtual environment provides the foundation that allows to run another operating system on top of it. In easier terms you could say that one server operating system is piggybacking on another one. The servers share the same hardware, but the VPS will see only so-called virtual hardware that the host operating system presents to it. In the end all this really means to you is that a physical server provides resources to more than one operating system while those are running in parallel.

Each virtual server account is completely isolated from the others running on the same physical server, and access to hardware resources (RAM, CPU, Disk Space, Network throughput) is managed by the physical server and the management software it runs. So, for instance, a virtual server may have 1GB RAM, 20GB of disk space, and 2 x 1.86GHz processors presented to it from the host server even though the physical server actually has 8GB RAM, 4 x 1.86GHz CPUs and 2 TB of disk space. It is not uncommon to have a virtualization ration of 1:30 or even more. Depending on the VPS software that’s used on the host machine, each VPS can either share hardware resources, or have guaranteed access to a specific amount of RAM, disk space, or CPU.
 
Most VPS plans today are hosted on either Linux or FreeBSD, but they do also exist in the Windows world. The costs of Windows VPS plans tend to be significantly more expensive than their Linux counterparts, but that’s not to say they’re not suitable in specific situations. A web host we found that provides very solid VPS setups for customers is Liquidweb. Visit Liquidweb.com to check out their VPS server web hosting plans.

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