Normally VPS hosting is OK for most of websites, but you can also use a dedicated web hosting service if you answer yes to any of following questions:
- Do need more than 240GB of disk space?
- Are you looking to run software that requires multiple CPU cores such as paid versions of SQL Server?
- Do you need more than 8GB of RAM?
- Is reliability and stability so important that you want to pay more to ensure they have no neighbors?
If the answer is yes to any of these, you will want to be on a dedicated server.
If you did not answer yes to any of these and the are not sure if you need a dedicated server, you will likely need a VPS.
What Is VPS Hosting?
VPS Hosting can be considered a stepping stone between a shared hosting plan and a dedicated server plan.
A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtualized server, hosted on portion of a physical dedicated server. A VPS acts as a fully dedicated server, with it’s own operating system, storage, memory and bandwidth. This means that a VPS can act like a dedicated server, at a lower cost than a dedicated server.
VPS Hosting benefits
The most important benefit of VPS hosting over shared hosting is the significant increase in resources. VPS plans typically provide much more storage space, memory, and bandwidth over shared hosting packages.
This provides you with the optimal performance regardless of traffic — if you have a surge of traffic to your website, performance won’t suffer like on a shared hosting platform. SSD drives are common and also dramatically improve load times.
In turn, the greater performance of a VPS server will give your website the stability and reliability your visitors will be looking for, especially in an Ecommerce environment. With downtime costing businesses a huge amount, it’s easy to see why many choose the superior resources of VPS hosting.
VPS hosting comes with a level of scalability, so downgrading or upgrading your setup is easy. This is another reason why many choose VPS hosting over dedicated hosting — hardware changes are problematic with dedicated servers.
If you have some technical knowledge and are looking to customize your server, you’ll be happy to know that VPS hosting provides a greater level of customization compared to shared hosting. You will typically have access to a hosting control panel and this will be highly customizable — giving you complete control over your hosting environment.
Last but not least, VPS hosting is significantly cheaper than dedicated hosting, while providing much of the same services. If you don’t need a physical machine, or the best-of-the-best hardware, then VPS hosting is a highly affordable alternative to dedicated hosting.
VPS Hosting Downsides
One of the downsides of VPS hosting compared to shared hosting is the cost. Compared to shared hosting plans, you can expect to pay much more for a VPS package. This can be a turn off for some, but for many businesses and small to medium sized companies it can be affordable.
Another major downside is the technical knowledge required to maintain your server and customize the configuration. If you plan on having a complicated setup you may need someone with a lot of technical expertise or even a system’s administrator, as access to the provider’s support team may not be sufficient for complex issues.
How Does VPS Hosting Work?
As the name implies, the entire premise of VPS hosting revolves around virtualization. With this technology, entire servers can be ‘split up’ and allocated to different people.
They share a single physical server, but each gain the benefits of being able to set up and configure their space as if it were wholly belonging to them. This gives them a high degree of flexibility along with an added element of privacy – for a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server.
Virtualization technology assesses the server as a whole and then divides resources up among different accounts based on what those account holders paid for. For example, if the server has 128GB of RAM, it may split that up in 2 or more parts.
Each account holder will then be assigned the amount of RAM as specified in their hosting contract. The resources allocated to each account are only for that account and will not be tapped into even if other accounts need or use more.
Frequently asked questions about Linux Cpanel Servers
Will I be able to manage my server through a web-based control panel?
Yes. Every dedicated server hosting plan comes with Web Host Manager (WHM), which gives you complete control over creating and customizing your account, as well as managing all aspects of your server.
How to Patch my Server ?
To protect yourself from security vulnerabilities, you must patch your server regularly. Developing a monthly or weekly habit of performing this simple task can save you a lot of grief and hassle later on.
If you use whm/cpanel control panel. The control panel will remind you of updating and patching when you login. If you do not want to upgrade or patch by control panel, you can run following command.
Fedora or Cent OS patch server command
- Connect to your server via SSH
- Switch to the root user .
- Run the following:
yum clean all
yum update
Ubuntu patch server command
- Connect to your server via SSH.
- Switch to the root user.
- Run the following:
apt-get upgrade
Can I upgrade my VPS hosting account to a dedicated server?
Yes. If you currently have a VPS hosting account with us, you can upgrade to our dedicated hosting at any time by ordering a new server. For fully managed customers, we will migrate your data from your current account to your new server. You can also upgrade either your VPS or your dedicated server with Premium DNS, which improves both your security and performance.
Can I upgrade my VPS to dedicated server hosting?
We want you up and running as soon as possible. Our standard dedicated hosting server configurations can be set up in minutes. However, some server add-ons and custom configurations may require longer setup times.
What is RAID?
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a means for storing data on multiple hard disks, then linking the disks so that the operating system on your server views them as a single entity. We offer RAID-1 with our Windows dedicated server hosting.
This RAID method of data storage is known as mirroring. Data is written to at least two disks, which offers a high degree of data security, but incurs a slight performance decrease due to capturing data on two disks.
How do you monitor your data centers and servers?
Our GoDaddy team is on-site and available 24/7/365 to ensure our servers – and your sites – are running at peak performance.