Virtual Web Hosting

With virtual web hosting, your website is hosted on a server that hosts other websites. The word "virtual" implies something that only appears to exist. In web hosting terms, a virtual web server is a device that portrays itself to the user and the Internet as a single, dedicated computer. This is the most cost-effective solution and is perfect for sites with less than half a million visitors per month.

The concept of a virtual web server began with virtual web hosting when it became necessary for a single Internet address to respond to requests for many domain names. The focus was entirely on serving web pages and did not extend to email, FTP, or other similar services. It is relatively easy for web server software such as Apache to handle requests for multiple domains, and developers soon adapted email and FTP software to also listen for other domains on the same IP address.

In the web hosting industry, the term "virtual web server" has become a marketing by-word, and therefore the phrase can mean any number of things. In most all cases, it refers specifically to a single computer with a single operating system running web-hosting software capable of listening to requests on multiple domains. There has been a move recently by leading-edge developers to build true virtual servers that give customers exclusive access to the operating system without the expense usually associated with dedicated web hosting.

Virtual Dedicated Servers

Virtual dedicated servers give you the power of having administrator access to the entire server without having to be concerned with the physical hardware of a dedicated server. Also Virtual Dedicated Servers are less expensive than Dedicated Servers.

Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) Technology is a new technology based on the concept of partitions on mainframes and advanced resource scheduling to divide a computer into many virtually isolated servers. A VDS simply put is, a server that runs inside another server. Each VDS acts like a dedicated server but shares the same hardware. 

VDS technology completely isolates each VDS, creating a more secure and reliable hosting environment. Each VDS has its own isolated disk space, guaranteed network interface bandwidth, guaranteed cpu allocation, RAM and operating system. If a VDS on the same physical server crashes, the other accounts on the server are protected and remain unaffected. It is not possible for any account to use up all the RAM, disk space, network bandwidth, CPU cycles, or any other resources of the Hosting Server. Neither is it possible for one account to view/edit the files of any other account.

VDS website owners have full control of the environment with their own root accounts and have:

• Ability to install and run its own application software (IE: Apache web server, Sendmail mail server, MySQL database server, Bind DNS server) 
• Ability to manage own config files 
• Ability to configure/modify root application software 
• Ability to delete, add, modify any file, including files in the root server 
• Full control over all files and processes on the virtual server

Who needs the Virtual Dedicated Server?
The VDS suits ideally the needs of independent companies involved in the development of Internet sites. The DBS capabilities allow to host any customers’ sites, while guaranteeing the freedom of choice as to the technologies applied, software components and script languages.

The VDS allows small Internet providers to set up their individual hosting application while avoiding them extra costs relating to the hosting platform and a need to worry about the server operation.

Dedicated Servers

Hosting your web sites on your own dedicated server may seem a little expensive in comparison to shared web hosting, but the end result is more advantageous. Shared web hosting, no matter how well managed, cannot be 100% reliable and stable. Dedicated servers offer the maximum allowing you to be administrator of the entire server without anyone else on the machine. These are normally best for busy and very high traffic websites.

Server Management

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