I have two hosting account, one is a shared cpanel hosting account, where i have about 10 - 15 of my sites and has been reliable hosting. I have start migrating to a new "so called" more powerful VPS, where i have 4-5 auto blogs and an arcade site, traffic is minimal to most of the sites on the VPS and i would imagine the first, shared account get more use/bandwidth etc but it seems the VPS account is always going down. I have email the hosting company and they keep saying i need a more powerful VPS as it keeps running out of memory. I find this hard to believe considering the small amount of sites i have on the VPS and the reliability of the shared hosting account. I have gone into my cpanel/whm account for the VPS and checked out the server info, and it says its a PIII-700 is that not a little bit underpowered and out of dated now for a VPS????
not that it is much help but a VPS is sharing the resources of a computer just like a normal shared host and therefore in theory you are not guaranteed an increase in performance. You just get to do some of the things you would be able to do if you had a dedicated server. I also imagine that a computer with several VPS on it running several websites will perform worse than a computer that just runs the same number of websites but as a shared server. Due to the fact it will require more software and more processing etc I have never used a VPS so i could be completely wrong. I did look into a VPS a while ago and on further research a lot of the companies seemed to be small and reviews said they were unreliable. Whereas shared hosting companies are often massive outfits that can provide much better support etc
Check for VPS configuration http://www.vpsland.com/xlseries.html I recommend not to go with vps. VPS performs always slower than typical server. Either use a good shared hosting or dedicated server.
excaliburwebdesigners, who is your host? Liquidweb ? Because they did the same to me and of course I know that dont need a bigger VPS.
Well, first, the hardware is not very powerful. Second, the nature of a vps is that it sucks up cpu cycles for the virtualisation layer that makes it a vps to begin with. So, you have a box that would be seen as less than ideal for shared hosting to begin with, then the vps software layer got crammed on top of it. And you did not mention multiple cpu's, so ....
PIII-700 for a VPS node? Your host is a scammer I'd say! And cPanel is a great resource hogger for VPSs. Either use DirectAdmin or LxAdmin. What's your budget and other requirements? You may get a low end dedi for cheap.
40MB? OMG...even people with 512MB RAM VPSs find it difficult to run this monster...it eats up >300MB RAM and a decent CPU in standby