Till now I have been telling you about Dreamhost and Hostgator since I have used them. Recent one in my hosting addition is wpwebhost. Though I don’t have any issue with my shared hosting account till now, but my traffic has increasing day by day and ultimately I have to move to some VPS or dedicated server sooner or later. More over I have almost 5 websites and more will be added into the inventory soon. So instead of waiting for the final moment, I find its better to move now. I have plans to start with forums and some dedicated service which I believe any shared webhosting will not be able to manage it.
Though dedicated webhosting is costly for now and I have decided to go for VPS. From Wiki definition
A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.
In plain English, you will be on shared environment on a dedicated server, but will have control like a dedicated server and most important dedicated resources. So you will not be sharing your resources like ram with other users on server.
While doing my research on VPS, I have realize life is not as simple as shared hosting like Bluehost, Dreamhost and Hostgator. Instead most of the work needed here is managed by command line and you need to have a good idea of Linux. At least the basic Linux commands if you going for unmanaged Virtual private servers.
The other variation of VPS is managed virtual private servers, which is managed by the webhosting company and you can easily do every thing like you do it in your basic web hosting account. You will have fantastico, cpanel , WHM and all the basic stuff to start with it and obviously you don’t need to be technical sound for such stuff. I know for some of you this may sound like rocket science and if you have questions , feel free to ask via comments. but don’t forget even I’m researching on it and can give my opinion based on my personal experience and research.
Managed Vs Unmanaged VPS
I guess those who have ever thought of moving from shared hosting to next level must have encountered between choice of managed and unmanaged VPS. At least I did. As I mentioned above for unmanaged VPS you need to do everything from command line and it will not be as easier as it seems. So if you are technically good with Linux and server side, you can easily select a unmanaged VPS server, but if you want every thing to be almost same as your shared cpanel environment, you should select managed VPS webhosting.
Which managed VPS hosting?
I have spent almost 8 hours finding the best of managed VPS account for me. My search is based on various reviews and forums interaction. I got lots of recommendations some big player, some small players and so on. Here are few of the hosting which I can recommend
Obviously again its tough to find among 3 of them, but still I’m looking to find the best out of them and will update you which one I find the best among them. So that people who are looking for VPS webhosting will get benefit out of it.
I will also look for your suggestion regarding managed VPS ? Are you on Shared hosting and do you feel that you need more powerful server?
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your post plus post from problogdesign, i think i know good deal of information already.. i still new in blogging, but I looking to create five project for my portfolio so maybe i should look into vps too..
good tips and post..
Izzat if your projects are not very resource hungry and traffic going to be decent, a good shared hosting will be good for you. But if you feel it will be the other way out, you should go for one of the VPS hosting or dedicated hosting.
Yes, Dedicated hosting will be costly as compared to the VPS. I think dedicated hosting will cost you min. $200 with decent features.
I still have a lot of time to ponder about this topic, since my traffic is not as high as compared to others. But thanks for introducing this topic
I can’t say nothing ….. great post helped me alot – another great managed VPS hosting company http://mediatemple.net/ .
You say that you have another 5 websites could you mention their addresses, i want visit them
Hey Osama
I heard of MT but got same bad review by one of my blogger frd who used it. So MT is not even an option here..
Hello Harsh,
Also check out these websites:
1) http://www.asmallorange.com/hosting/vps/
2) http://www.slicehost.com/
3) http://www.lunarpages.com/virtual-private-server/
4) http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/vps-web-hosting.php
Greets,
Mandar
Hey Mandar
Thanks a lot for the links but I spend almost hours in the web hosting forum and other forum and no one suggested any one of them apart from slicehost. Another one which I was recommended by many is liquidweb.
Hello,
Technospot.net is using ASmallOrange! And I was using LunarPages few years back.
You should have a powerful node support, these are the basis over which i uses to judge an VPS service. You take 1gb of ram but the nodes are unable to support the traffic, that does not make sense.
Basically VPS hosting is used for heavy scripts like some Social Neworking scripts coz these scripts demands more CPU. But an average website like a blog doesn’t need much powerful server. Your info is valuable to me.
-Mohit
@Harsh
Instead go for a unmanaged service like Linode, get the VPS installed by someone (costs 50USD) and then continue. Will save you 20USD each month.
Hi
I came here from facebook and thanks for sharing such a great nowledge.
I’m glad Khalid. you find it useful enough to drop a thanks here. Welcome to Shoutmeloud.
harsh me to in VPS, Whats your Monthly rent for the same.
Hi guys,
Does anyone have experience with vps.net. They are selling nodes where in addition to RAM and Space, even processor speed is split into each node. Is that possible?