Traditional VPS versus Hosting.com’s vManaged SMB Solutions
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Traditional VPS
Hosting providers that offer Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans promote a solution that allows single physical servers to act as separate “virtual” servers, each capable of running their own Operating System. These VPS plans differ from shared solutions by granting features such as root access, unique IP addresses, and allocated memory.
Additional features such as control over the resources that each virtual server uses; reboots of the virtual machine; and the ability to install specific software; all without affecting any other VPS’s on the same machine make standard VPS’s very attractive.
However, while these features are an improvement from typical shared hosting environments, VPS’s have their share of drawbacks. Security vulnerabilities can remain a concern since hardware is shared; and likewise the VPS is vulnerable to a failure on the physical machine that it resides on. Furthermore, if resources such as the CPU or RAM are stressed, performance can ultimately be sacrificed. Moreover, VPS’s are more complicated than shared solutions, and therefore require administrators with more experience to manage them.
There are still other areas in which VPS’s fail to meet their full potential. The most glaring is that a VPS only virtualizes an Operating System, making it in some ways simply an expensive shared server. This can limit the upgrade capability of a VPS, and subsequently make scalability a challenge as well. For a growing enterprise that demands adaptability, its crucial to be able to make comprehensive changes very quickly.
Hosting.com’s vManaged
With Hosting.com, our vManaged SMB solution goes far beyond VPS’s. For starters, we root our solution in an intentional design and a robust infrastructure, using only Hewlett Packard servers, over a Cisco network, and VMware’s ESX Server, the market’s leader in hypervisors. VMware’s ESX Server implements a hypervisor that runs directly on the hardware of the physical machine. This approach can offer each virtual machine a complete system including processors, memory, and BIOS.
We know you don’t want to think about how much processing power or how much RAM you have. Your only concern is that you have ENOUGH. With Hosting.com’s vManaged solution, you’ll start with abundant disk space, including ample space reserved exclusively for your Operating System; dedicated RAM as well as a dedicated Processor to ensure that you have all the power that you need to grow your business. As you grow, your vManaged solution can grow with you. Additional resources can be allocated to you in minutes.
Our vManaged SMB solution overcomes even more challenges that traditional VPS’s face, like the ability to take entire snapshots of your virtualized server, which makes back ups simple, and grants revolutionary mobility to your servers. With flexibility like this, provisioning servers can be done faster and with more piece of mind than ever before.
Managed control, power to spare, sophisticated features, database support; and top of the line infrastructure. Hosting.com’s vManaged solution is anything but traditional.
Bottom Line: See if vManaged is right for you
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