VPS versus shared
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- Gerald V.
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Virtual Private Hosting versus shared. have any of you guys had a run in with the VPS? I was thinking abotu going VPS seems liek you have a better set up and more control. Like for a site that offered downloads, like music or whatever.
I was looking at spry vps hosting. it seems cheap but it isnt free and i dont want some BS lame hosting just good cheap stuff. The hardest thing to find is giood stuff cheap. i have tried about ten companies all of them sucked lunarpages and hostrocket have been the only two that were worth more than a nickel so far.
so what do you all think? Any ideas or suggestions or insight ???
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- Mack
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- One thing to note about VPS is that it is still shared hosting. Providers will oversell it just like shared. The only real advantage is root access, and shell access (that some shared won't let you do), and some memory allocation. If it's performance you're after you're better off dedicated, and if you do, get dual processors (night and day difference).
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- GollumX
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The service is just top-notch... the best service I have seen anywhere on the web, and i'm not just talking webhosts.
The forum is great: Apart from the great tutorials and how-to's, two of the members are just an absolute gold-mine of info, and always ready to help and advise. One of them is Doug Robbins, the guy who wrote the very popular and extremely handy scripts available for free at: http://www.labradordata.ca/home/12 . The other is Jonathan (aka chirpy), a moderator on the cpanel forums and coder of some really awesome server scripts ( http://www.configserver.com/ ). I use csf, a great security and firewall tool, but will probably install some of his other scripts later.
What Mack wrote (above) is true with most vps hosts, however, Servint manage this pretty well. Besides, you could always go for a Deuce package (only two vps's on one machine) or a Solo (1 vps per machine). Check out this latest offering which was just release a few weeks ago to existing customers (not available to new customers yet)
We are pleased to announce that our latest product, the SuperVPS, is now available for customers only in an exclusive pre-launch offer. As our team works to prepare for the launch, we're excited to have an opportunity to pre-sell the first inventory to existing customers in appreciation for your loyalty. In exchange we're hoping to receive feedback from those of you who are lucky enough to obtain one of these early spots.
What we're doing is blurring the lines between VPS, VPSpro, and Dedicated Server even further. We're combining incredible hardware, SWsoft's Virtuozzo platform, and ServInt's proprietary software comprised of over 50,000 lines of code to create a new, disruptive hosting platform we call the SuperVPS.
The hardware:
Dual CPU Quad Core Intel Clovertown
16 GB FB-DIMM dual-ranked RAM
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives in Hardware RAID 10 Hot-Swap Drives and Fans
Dual Gigabit Network Interfaces
The software:
Swsoft's Virtuozzo
64-bit Virtuozzo Kernel
CentOS 4.5
Choice of the latest Plesk or cPanel, or plain OS
Now the product itself:
One CPU Core guaranteed, Burst to 4 CPU Cores
2 GB RAM Guaranteed, Burst to 4 GB RAM
50 GB Storage
2,000 GB Monthly Transfer
Daily Off-Server Backups
A mature SuperVPS server will have only 6-8 customers on it to prevent any contention for guaranteed resources, and constant availability of burst resources. We will be marketing the product at $199/month with no surcharge for a control panel, just like our existing VPS/VPSpro products. There will be no setup fee during our launch phase. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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- Robert D. Wagers
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Shared can be adequate for most situations... it just depends on your needs. I have shared hosting with a dedicated IP address upgrade.
The biggest problem with shared hosting is that unless you upgrade your package, you will share your IP address with everyone on the same server as you. This will cause huge lag during busy times.
VPS on the other hand, because you have more control over your setup and configurations, you host will offer less support... unless you pay extra for advanced support. (the previous statement varies by host plan). - "Everyone has to get knocked-down every once-in-a-while, otherwise you'll never learn how to get-back-up!
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- GollumX
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Robert Wagers wrote:
VPS on the other hand, because you have more control over your setup and configurations, you host will offer less support... unless you pay extra for advanced support. (the previous statement varies by host plan).
This is not true for Servint. So far I have received support responses under 20mins... and usually 5mins for everything starting from the very basic to advanced level support. Servint provides managed vps's, so almost everything is taken care of. You never get charged extra for support.
The only reason why you might not want a Servint VPS is that shared is cheaper. However, why not get a cheaper package. The best thing about a VPS is that there is no downtime when upgrading from say 256MB dedicated RAM to 1GB ram... and there is no feee to change packages.
As you can see, I love Servint. Truly they have been my best investment after RT. I'm not even using a referral link here lol. They're just good... fullstop!
If you're after shared, I hear Rochen or Siteground are good. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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