Advantages of Virtual Private Servers

For many business owners that have found their shared web hosting is no longer enough for them or their website, using virtual private servers is often the next logical step. Virtual private servers, or VPS, give business owners much more freedom with their site than shared hosting plans, but they can also be more affordable than dedicated hosting plans, especially for business owners that aren’t sure whether they’re quite ready to make that jump. Once making the move to VPS from shared, it doesn’t take much time at all for website owners to realize just how many benefits come with VPS.

With an entry-level shared Web hosting plan, the customer is extremely limited in the specific services that they can use because they are sharing that server, and those services, with the same websites. However, with VPS website owners can decide if they want to be able to install and configure PostgreSQL instead of MySQL, or they can try out different types of software such as Zope or Plone.

Another big benefit to VPS, especially to business owners that want to be able to run as many different websites as they want, is that they can! Shared hosting resources are extremely limited and typically you can run more than one website, but the cost of signing up for different shared packages won’t make it worthwhile to do so. Instead, with a VPS one customer can run many different sites, and make it much more organized when it comes time to organizing and maintaining them all, too.

Shared servers also often don’t allow the website owner to run other servers such as mail servers or FTP servers, also because the resources are simply too limited to allow for such things. While being able to have these servers is a big advantage of dedicated servers, they’re also available on virtual private servers, and for a fraction of the cost too, for business owners that don’t need all the other benefits of a dedicated server.

But even though virtual private servers will cost website owners slightly more than a dedicated server, the cost savings could be found in other areas – and that’s another benefit of virtual private servers. Because a shared server has certain limitations, they can only be used for the highest priority data, and that’s the actual website. But virtual private servers are not limited in this way and the business owner can use them for whatever they choose including file storage, backup, or anything else that they choose. This can save in costs on other programs and software in other areas.

Virtual private servers are a great way for business owners to make the transition from a shared server to a dedicated, but they can also be all many business owners need. With so many benefits, and so few restrictions, many business owners find that VPS provides them with it all and that they never need to make the switch to the costlier dedicated server.