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Every expanding e-business reaches a point where it outgrows the confining limits of shared hosting. While shared hosting is good enough for establishing your web presence and letting the world know that you exist, it is nowhere near enough to help your business make the kind of money you desire. For this, you have to opt for more powerful hosting solutions.

When it comes to powerful hosting solutions, companies have two choices. Those that enjoy the luxury of unlimited resources can go for the cream – dedicated hosting, where the website enjoys the dedicated attention of a single physical server. This ensures high security, excellent services, speed and near-continuous uptime. However, this comes at a cost. Many small to medium companies may find the cost of hiring dedicated servers prohibitive. In that case, there is no need to give up in despair. VPS servers have been devised just for this purpose.

VPS hosting makes use of a technology that divides one physical server into a number of virtual servers. Each subscriber housed in each of the virtual servers enjoys the security and services offered by a dedicated server. For all practical purposes, individual subscribers will not know that they are sharing the physical server with others. This is because each VPS server has its own booting applications and software. They maintain their own web servers, mail servers and security systems.

Windows 2008 VPS hosting has become a much more reliable and powerful platform because of its all new Hyper-V technology. Windows 2007 could not realistically compete with the other technologies that were offered by competing systems. However, with the arrival Windows VPS hosting servers hosted on Hyper-V, customers can expect a significant performance boost and a much better hosting experience.

Windows VPS hosting has a number of important advantages. The more significant of these advantages are for the administrator. The familiar Windows interface is warm, inviting and quite reassuring, particularly when you are new to the entire process. Using this interface, set up becomes a cakewalk. Since Windows interface is familiar, many new users find it easy to adapt to the Windows VPS hosting environment.

Windows VPS hosting can now boast of improved security. So, companies that run popular websites or require complex applications and customized software can enjoy them easily.

The only disadvantage of Windows VPS hosting is the considerable amount of web resources it demands from the server. However, even this disadvantage is being overcome with the current version of Windows 2008 Secure Core Technology. It also pays to keep in mind that Windows VPS hosting services are generally costlier than Linux VPS hosting. The main reason for this difference is license cost. Linux is open source and requires no license, but Microsoft makes it mandatory for users to purchase a Windows License when they opt for the robust Windows VPS hosting services.

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When your website grows out of the facilities provided by shared hosting services, the next natural progression is towards using Virtual Private Servers (VPS), aka virtual dedicated servers. Virtual dedicated servers use a special kind of partitioning technology that successfully creates several ‘virtual’ servers out of a single physical server. Every web site that is hooked on to a virtual dedicated server has a completely separate server space. The server behaves as if it was dedicated only to that website. Through this technology, hosting companies are able to create multiple servers using a single physical server. This reduces costs while providing maximum benefit to clients.

Virtual dedicated servers offer a number of advantages to the websites they service. Through this service, a website has full root access to the server. That means, you can do any one of the number of activities to customize your server. You may install software, add and update packages, host multiple sites and change server configuration. At the same time, security is never compromised because other clients do not have access to your section of the server.

Virtual dedicated servers are very attractive to website owners because they are a happy via media between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. Many websites, particularly fledgling e-commerce sites, may have outgrown shared hosting but may find dedicated hosting too expensive for their needs. In this case, virtual dedicated servers provide all the facilities at a fraction of the cost.

Virtual dedicated hosting is targeted at businesses and enterprises that are on their way up. They are meant to be used as an intermediary step towards a highly successful online business. Therefore, virtual dedicated servers always offer an easy option to upgrade services. Generally, you would require less than a minute to upgrade your hosting account so that your website would have more disk space, memory or other facilities. Virtual dedicated servers come with an easy-to-use control panel that offers a highly powerful tool box that allows you easy access to powerful features.

Virtual dedicated servers are not without a few disadvantages. Of course, these disadvantages are comparative. When compared with a dedicated server, virtual dedicated servers offer less security. However, the amount of protection that virtual dedicated servers provide is much more than that provided by shared hosting services. Only if your website requires 100% protection, should you consider replacing virtual dedicated servers with a physical dedicated server. Another disadvantage is the fact that it is possible for you to alter your website accidentally or even crashed the server unwittingly. Even so, most dedicated servers provide excellent backup facilities.

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