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Reliability of VPS Hosting – Part II

Being Virtual In The Online World

Unlike shared hosting, VPS offers you multiple benefits and more reliable hosting solution. Reliability of a VPS also rely on the specs of the web hosting node to which your server is located as well as the count of VPS servers that are running on the same hosting node.

Though many people have different thoughts about VPS, still Linux VPS Hosting and Windows VPS Hosting are known as the best website hosting solution that provides you the core benefits of a Dedicated Servers at a very reliable price. A good thing about the VPS is that if you notice a rapid growth in your business and realize that you need more resources, you can easily upgrade your current website hosting package to a VPS plan.

You don’t have to share services or applications with other servers on the same machine. Each VPS server acts as independent and remains invisible to each other as well as there is no sharing required of processes or file systems. With the root access, you are able to install and maintain various softwares and applications you want on your VPS server.

On VPS Hosting you don’t have to compete for some crucial aspects such as bandwidth, memory, CPU and disk space. Hence, VPS Hosting solution provides you good server uptime and high-performance.

Enhanced security and optimum performance of VPS makes your hosting solution perfect. If a website hosting provider offers you SLA, you will be able to know what type of reliability you should expect from that VPS Hosting provider. New technologies are taking place day-by-day and due to that VPS servers and various web hosting types are becoming much reliable than current.

Read More : Reliability of VPS Hosting – Part I

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Some Great Benefits With VPS Hosting

VPS Hosting is a great way to have lots of benefits from limited resources. Do you know what is the specialty of VPS? In short, these servers are created by partitioning one server in smaller and sensible servers. You just don’t get a complete control on these servers but you can also n number of websites as per your requirements. You can also dedicate some servers for some important applications like FTP and e-mails.

Because of the n number of advantages with VPS hosting, it is been used in some of the very special areas. The virtual servers are generally used as sandboxes and honeypots. Here we will see what are sandboxes and honey pots and how do they serve and act.

What is a sandbox?

As per Wikipedia, sandboxing is “a testing (or virtual) environment that separates untested code changes and entire research from the production environment or resource, in the context of software development including Web development and revision control, and by extension in web-based editing environments”. In short, it is an environment where you can organize experiments and tests that do not affect the system that is in use.

How VPS can be served as a sandbox?

As it is possible to keep vps servers isolated from others, it can be used as a testing environment.  A virtual server can produce the copy of real system so you can make changes at any point of time without thinking about their impact on real system.

What is a honeypot?

Wikipedia defines honeypot as “a trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner reduce the  attempts of unauthorized use of information systems”.

How can VPS act as a honeypot?

Tracking the security of server has become easy if one server acts as a honeypot and because of its isolated nature, VPS hosting server can be used as a honeypot. So we can say that we can run most unlikely programs on a VPS and we can check where the server is lacking.

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