Hey Guys Need some help , which one should i buy ... My budget is low so i am thinking of a vps Are there any disadvantages in that????? Thanks Tanuj
A dedicated 'in most cases' is going to be more powerful, a VPS is a step up from a reseller though. Depends on what you need it for. A VPS is plenty powerful enough for most sites.
If your budget is low then you will most likely have to go with a VPS and depending on what your requirements are you may be set with a shared plan.
This is what people forget when they get a VPS... You have to manage it just like a dedicated server.
Incorrect, many VPS's come with managed services just like a reseller account. Dedicated servers do as well if you want it, all of my dedicated servers have some form of management included.
I am using shared server now and i get a 'throttle policy' problem in it as they say there are too many users on this domain and thus we have to close this site . i hope i wont get this problem in VPS..
In a VPS you will not face a throttle policy, but you will be sharing the same server resources (CPU/RAM) with between 8-32 other VPS. You will need to spend USD 40 to 50 to get a decent VPS.
A small percent come with managed services, and you always need to ask your self on a managed VPS that costs 50 dollars how pro active are they? The best bet when getting into a VPS is you understand that its basicly a server and the same things can happen to a VPS that can happen to a server.
Most of the good ones come with managed services, now there are more and more small companies providing VPS that may not, the bigger ones however do. Actually the managed services on my VPS's were better than any reseller account I ever had or standard hosting, they were much more 'proactive'. You are guaranteed in most cases a percentage of ram and cpu on a VPS. I have also found it the exact other way around, I have hit limits on my VPS's I never hit on a reseller account. In order to divide a server up like they do with so many other VPS clients certain limits get set real low on VPS machines that are easily hit.
What you are saying is the difference between managed and semi-managed. I always get semi-managed with monitoring. That way, I get all the support, not proactive intervention, unless the server is down, then they get notified and work on system. Proactive is a pain for me. If they change something, I must know and it could complicate things. Imagine they are working on server while im trying to do the opposite or somthing else. Anyhow, to OP, VPS are good, some are even dedicated VPS with more ressources. You might look into that.
I'd never go with VPS, I said this in another form, but check out cari.net (I'm not associated with them at all, I just use their services for VoIP auto-dialers and webserver) they give full root and their low end product is $60/mo. Also what is your current internet situation it might make sense to host from home. People will warn you about this but its an easy way to get a server up for almost nothing.. get a PC or cheep sun server and you are in business.
A VPS is a SHARED environment just like that $25/year shared hosting. You will have to put up with the same problems as you do with shared hosting though instead of sharing with 1000's of people you are probably on a 'box' (usually it's more than one box) with about 1/10th that many people if that. The advantage to a VPS is that it looks like you have your own box. It means you can Remote Desktop right into the 'computer' and do whatever you want to do with it (add software, etc....) A DEDICATED server is just that. If you are going down that road then I would HIGHLY recommend a managed server. If you do not have a managed server, the only thing the datacenter will do for you is restart your box for you (literally turn it off and turn it on or softboot it). My main server is on a VPS with quad-P4s and I don't have much of a problem. Because you DO have a dedicated IP address with a VPS I don't know how many people are actually connected to these machines but since changing I have indeed noticed an improvement in speed/uptime. If your budget allows it, go for a managed dedicated server, if not a VPS should suit you fine.
Hmm, I wish i saw this topic before i bought a 256MB unmanaged VPS server. This is my first time on a vps, before i always used shared hosting but i needed to step up a notch so at that time the price was right. I would like to know the duties of managing a VPS server. I have 3 proxies sites on the server and i'm a bit worried that the three proxies will use up the 256MB which is now 200MB due to system resources on centos 4. I need to know how to take care of it, how many times should i reset it and what else should i do to it.
Possibly now with so many smaller companies also offering VPS, when it was a newer option most all providers offered some form of management. The top companies still offer management and not a 'high price'