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When the first Virtual Private Server was introduced years ago, thе costs of maintaining this innovative hosting solution were high and server resources were still expensive. Over the years, maintenance costs have dropped and the adoption of server virtualization has become more common, which has made Virtual Private Servers a mainstream solution and which has put them in a position to compete with regular shared hosting services in terms of user preference. More and more shared hosting users have started asking themselves whether or not to move to a Virtual Private Server. If you are an e-commerce startup, for example, you will need more resources as you grow. And these do not include only space and traffic. Even if you avail of unmetered resources on a shared server, you will have a hard time running all the scripts your store needs and handling the growing number of customers and purchase queries because of insufficient server memory. Here are the features that are typical...

Over the past few years, web server technology – much like everything else related to computers – has made incredible strides. Hosting companies have used all of these advances to create a new type of web server platform, typically called  cloud hosting . “That’s great,” you bemusedly say, “but  what is cloud hosting ?” A succinct explanation is that there are not just set of scalable virtualization technology. To help you unpack what  that  means, we’re going to focus on two of the terms in that definition:  virtualized servers  and  scalability . The Benefits of Virtualized Servers Cloud hosting uses the concept of a “virtualized server .” This essentially means that you have space on a host server shared with other users, but it’s virtualization means that it runs autonomously from the other accounts on it. The largest benefit of virtualization is that it’s flexible. U...