Hello. What is the difference between Virtual Private Server and Semi-Dedicated Server? I know that VPS is a part (let's say 1/5th) of a whole server, with assigned RAM and resources, while Dedicated Server is the whole server for one user, but what is Semi-Dedicated?
Basically the same thing as a VPS, only different name and an idea of sharing the same machine with fewer customers than when on a VPS plan.
You can look towards a Semi-dedicated server as a higher and better version of VPS's as it offers more resources i.e. disk space, bandwidth and RAM and the hardware node is shared between a less number of users.
Shared but having dedicated amount of RAM and CPU resource. This might be used for sites which need to be stable having large resources. As an alternative to both of the named type s of hosting you may use SaaS or cloud. quality SaaS hosting is offered by utropicmedia.net called Virtual application server. Cloud VPS are the best from webhosting.uk.com.
You can compare semi dedicated hosting package as shared hosting account but only 4-5 high traffic sites are hosted. But you will have dedicated amount of RAM and CPU resource. In VPS your resources are limited by RAM and CPU. If you think that you site might face high fluctuations in resources than you should go for Semi-Dedicated. Because in semi dedicated only your site might need high amount of resource for a brief period of time.
VPS would be a better choice. SEMI dedicated is a shared hosting with less number of accounts per server. You get more share in the resource usage. Cloud hosting will also be a good alternative to VPS. Its easily scalable and more redundant.
You guys are wrong, it would be the same exact things, you can't say what is better and what isn't, and one or the other could be bad or good, it depends on how many the hosts actually sells, so If the VPS accounts they got 20 VPS clients on one server and the semi dedicated has only 5 the semi would be better, and visa virsa.
Thank you all for the input. I decided to use VPS myself, but I asked about semidedicated out of curiosity. Now something else bothers my curiosity - what is cloud VPS?
VPS gives you more control since it's more like a dedicated server. Semi-Dedicated is like a shared hosting plan except that it has ALOT less accounts on it (compare XXX to XXXX accounts in a shared server to X to XX accounts on a semi-dedicated server. In my opinion if you don't need the control and want a simple account go with semi-dedicated. Most of the time you won't find more than 15 accounts on the server whereas some VPS providers will put upwards of 30+ ve's on a VPS server. As ryan1918 said it simply depends on the provider.
The advantages of a cloud VPS versus other VPS are: * getting a full OS of your own (rather than sharing using jail/containers) -- more flexibility. Note: this is a benefit only if you need it -- there is nothing wrong with jails/containers in general if you don't need the control and resource guarantees * easy upgrade and move to a full server or even multiple servers while preserving the image/functionality you already have. Most clouds offer multiple sizes VPS where you pay based on resources you require, and elasticity to scale your VPS up and down * generally (depenind on the cloud), high availability and faster recovery in the case of hardware failure than you get with the more traditional dedicated server approach Some of the disadvantages (highly depending on the cloud solution you chose): * uptime/failure handling vary * sometimes the configuration is a bit unusual
Whatever you do, don't get a VPS at Godaddy right now. I have one and they are having 'virtualization' issues. Many of my processes die at random. I have to restart the mail server every 5 minutes. It is ridiculous.