How do VPS's work? - Page 2

KeaLes · Post #16 (**permalink**) 11-09-2007, 05:24 AM

If you need an unmanaged VPS, I knoe that A2hosting.co provides it.

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The maintenance of the VPS is left up to you, the customer. If you don't feel up to this task, our dedicated plans include a fully managed environment, controlled by our experienced staff of Linux system administrators

Hope you are experienced enough to manage your VPS.

brianf · Post #17 (**permalink**) 11-13-2007, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Tottal

Then what makes it different from shared account? what's more shell access is often provided on shared account on clients' request, so I don't see the point of buying VDS with no root access...
I couldn't get is myriadnetwork.com VPS managed?

The fact that it is "guaranteed" so much of the available resources. Even without shell access it will many times be a significant step up from a shared plan as long as it's not over sold. Many times shell access is only needed during the initial set up, so if the company doesn't mind doing the set up you'll be able to use a control panel for day to day maintenance.

vpsville · Post #18 (**permalink**) 11-26-2007, 10:51 PM

How much is reliability worth to your business?

Sometimes a VPS can be a step up from dedicated, since VPS's usually run on enterprise hardware (redundant power supplies, hardware RAID controllers etc). If you compare that to a dedicated box, which often just has a single IDE disk, its a big upgrade.

VPS's usually lag behind in performance when your server needs to do many disk writes, as disk time is also shared among the other VPS's on the same hardware node.

Matthew · Post #19 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by vpsville

How much is reliability worth to your business?

Sometimes a VPS can be a step up from dedicated, since VPS's usually run on enterprise hardware (redundant power supplies, hardware RAID controllers etc). If you compare that to a dedicated box, which often just has a single IDE disk, its a big upgrade.

VPS's usually lag behind in performance when your server needs to do many disk writes, as disk time is also shared among the other VPS's on the same hardware node.

You are right there. It all boils down to what's in the box. Choosing the right type of RAID can make a big change too as soom RAID levels are slower then others. There are a ton of factors to consider. I think if you need that much performance then you should really be planning with your host about what server to have so that you get precisly what you need.