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What is a Virtual Private Server?
If you are looking for greater control and performance than a Shared Hosting account can offer, or a low cost upgrade path to a Dedicated Server, Virtual Private Servers deliver performance, security and flexibility in equal measure at a fraction of the cost.
A VPS should be regarded and used in much the same way as a Dedicated Server but because the costs of hardware, network connectivity and systems maintenance are distributed amongst those sharing the hardware, it represents an affordable choice - even for shared hosting customers.
How does VPS technology work?
Using Parallels® Virtuozzo Containers, an industry-leading virtualization software, we partition our hardware nodes into 'Virtual Servers' which behave exactly like individual dedicated servers, but all sit on the same physical hardware.
Each "Virtual Server" in turn has its own operating system with root access and a 100% guaranteed equal share of resources (Processor, Disk, RAM) which can be appropriated for any purpose. The real beauty of the system is that one VPS cannot physically be affected by another VPS using the same hardware. A Virtual Server behaves exactly like an isolated stand-alone Dedicated Server.
Here are some of the key concepts involved:-
Dynamic partitioning
Due to fair sharing technology, each partition can have almost the same power as the full server. Hundreds of partitions can be created on one server, each with full dedicated-server functionality - root access, the ability to reboot and install any application, or change any file.
Resource Management
The technology we use allows for mainframe-like levels of resource utilization, monitoring and control on standard hardware. In addition to standard CPU, disk space and network I/O, it also enables complete memory (user, kernel and disk cache) and disk I/O management. VPS's are fully isolated with minimum and maximum resource guarantees, and very reasonable contention levels - which means you can be assured of the computing power you need!
OS Virtualization
VPS technology also enables us to move live sites or hundreds of running applications to another physical server for planned system maintenance or when hardware upgrades are required. This can be done with only a few seconds of planned downtime, with huge gains in availability.
OS and Application Templating
Using our own application and OS templates, we are able to group together and deploy updates and applications to specific entire systems. This in turn enables the integrated versioning of all system files, libraries, and applications. Additional benefits include improved system uptime and improved security.
Does Hostway offer Windows VPS?
We are pleased to be able to offer customers a Windows2003 OS based VPS, giving full access via RDC at any time.
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