HostStore Offer Range Of Virtual Private Servers Available Through Their Online Store

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San Diego, USA  – Industry leading, US web hosting and domain name provider, HostStore Inc., announce a range of virtual private server solutions that are available through their online store.

Available at competitive rates, the current jewel in HostStore’s virtual server hosting crown is their VPS Ultimate hosting package. The VPS Ultimate comes with 250 gigabytes of hard drive disk storage and 4 gigabytes of guaranteed RAM. Setup is free and HostStore offer a range of operating systems, including CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora and more.

HostStore also offer more options in way of virtual private servers, including a VPS Basic package, a VPS Value package and a VPS Premium package. Setup is free for all packages and all come at a competitive monthly price with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. All server packages also currently offer a limited promotion, whereby as well as free setup, customers are also inclined to 10% off their monthly fee and 2x bandwidth.

“Virtual private servers are growing in stature and we are pleased to be able to offer our customers some of the most competitive rates in the industry,” commented a spokesperson for HostStore. “Not all companies offer virtual server hosting as is in our Ultimate package. The VPS Ultimate is not only one of the best deals in the United States, but worldwide, and we can offer free setup and effective customer support when clients choose HostStore for their virtual private servers.”

For more information about HostStore and their range of web site hosting and domain name services, please go to www.hoststore.com.

Benefits of Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting)

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If you are serious about your online business, you may wish to take a closer look at VPS hosting. What exactly is VPS? And how does it benefit your business?

VPS is short for Virtual Private Server. A VPS hosting plan gives you complete control over your own hosting account. It’s almost as if you are the owner of a dedicated server. However, a VPS is not the same as having a dedicated server. It is just a virtual segment of the server. In other words, there may be other hosting accounts on the same machine, but these accounts do not impact your VPS account. The virtual segment is created using special software, and the goal here is to allocate dedicated resources to you without having to setup a new machine.

This allows you to enjoy all the benefits of running a private server without having to undertake the costs of setting up a dedicated server. A VPS hosting account may cost you between $50 to $100, depending on the amount of resources allocated to your account. A dedicated hosting account can easily cost you $200 or more each month. So by using a VPS account to host your sites, you enjoy a massive savings of 50% or more upfront. Now let’s take a look at some of the benefits of owning a VPS account.

1) Administrative rights and access.

A VPS account gives you full admin rights. It’s almost as if you are running the server in your own home. You are given virtual access to the root directory of the account. You may then install and configure the server anyway you like. Remember, whatever you do doesn’t affect all the other accounts on the same server (and vice versa). So you are free to pretty much do what you like with the server.

This is important for some webmasters because some software require special components to function properly. But you can’t install third party components in a shared hosting environment. You can, however, buy and install third party components on a VPS account.

2) Cost savings.

Compared to a dedicated server, a VPS hosting account offers immense cost savings. You do not, however, enjoy the same amount of resources that you get with a dedicated server. For this reason, a VPS account is ideal for mid-sized websites

. You don’t really need a full-fledged server to run your site, but you do require dedicated resources. In this case, a VPS account is perfect.

3) More reliability.

In shared environment, you never know when an inexperienced webmaster may bring the whole machine down. This happens from time to time because webmasters upload scripts that hog too much resources. If the server goes down, everyone is affected. However, if you are using a VPS account, you don’t have to worry about what the other webmasters are doing. The resources are dedicated to your account and you will not be affected adversely. If reliability is important to you, paying a little more for a VPS account may be worth it.

Guide to Find a Reliable Vps Hosting

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What is Vps Hosting?

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Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting is the hosting of separate entities for different customers in a single server. This technology allows the hosting provider to partition and create multiple virtual servers from one physical server. Customers would share the server which includes the hardware itself and the connection. However, they would enjoy the benefits almost similar to dedicated hosting such as their private operating system and file system, allowing freedom of accessibility and security. Hence, VPS hosting can be considered as a hosting environment in between a shared and a dedicated hosting. Ultimately, an advanced performance and privacy can be achieved at a lesser cost than for a dedicated hosting.

In terms of control, customers would be able to access administrative tasks such as changing server configurations, installing software, hosting multiple sites and rebooting the server. Thus it is imperative that customers who require greater accessibility and security of their server to opt for this type of account. If you are planning to move from a shared to a dedicated hosting environment without having to incur significant rise of costs, the logical step is to move to VPS hosting server first. With the price dropping to as low as $10 per month for some hosting providers, VPS hosting is definitely a worthy proposition for a lot of users. Since the operating system and file system are separate for each customer, users can expect a guaranteed share of the server in terms of CPU, disk input/output and network.

For those intending to do reseller hosting, you will be able to have more control on the services that you can offer, therefore having the edge over other resellers in the market. For web developers who plan to set up a social networking website or function-rich blogs, VPS hosting would be a suitable option. It is also a good choice for webmasters who are already comfortable with managing a shared hosting and intend to upgrade their skills on server management, without being exposed to the risks of running a fully dedicated server. Webmasters would be able to install custom applications or change modules for the server. They would also be able to enjoy guaranteed security over the websites that they manage since every VPS environment has its own software to run its hosting and is allocated its own portion of resources, hence reducing possibilities of intrusion.

In summary, VPS hosting is the perfect hosting solution for customers who want the control and flexibility of dedicated hosting at a cost similar to shared hosting. With this technology that enables webmasters to enjoy the best of both worlds, it is indeed a great value proposition.

Virtual Private Server (VPS) Web Hosting

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For those webmasters whom desire more control over their website hosting environment, virtual private server, or VPS web hosting is a viable alternative. The extremely low cost web hosting service provided by shared hosting has it’s limitations. Because a single server is home to possibly several hundred websites, some of their resources such as CPU, disk space, and bandwidth have to be shared by all of the individual hosting account customers. These shared resources normally are not necessarily an issue for small to medium sized sites. The major limitation is the restraint of control over system level software such as http servers, mail servers etc. You don’t have options such as being able to select a different operating system and you cannot compose programs or do administrative functions like putting Spam filters or firewalls in place. For most of you this isn’t a problem because you either don’t know how or don’t want to do that stuff anyway! The majority of website owners don’t have any interest or the skills to deal with this sort of work and are content to leave it to the hosting company. Those who want or need more control over their server situation or desire to try out new software, however, can attain this level of management with a Virtual Private Server.

A virtual private server (VPS) is a physical server that has been split into several virtual machines by software. Each of these divisions acts as an autonomous dedicated server. The physical resources such as RAM, CPU and disk space are still shared, but each VPS acts independently of the others. Each VPS can even have a different operating system and can be configured any way you want. The central asset of VPS is that it lets each VPS administrator have access to the root level of his virtual server. This accessibility allows the web master to install and remove software, set permissions, and create accounts. You have the same control as if it were a “real” server. In addition to allowing you a greater degree of control over your hosting environment, a VPS is more secure than shared hosting. If a hacker were to gain access to the root of a shared server he could wreak havoc on any or all of the websites on that server. A VPS is sub-divided in such a way that even if a hacker were to obtain entry through one account, he could not get to the others. Each VPS is invisible to the others and there is no way to set up root level access from one VPS to another.

The most common configuration of virtual private servers (VPS) is to evenly divide all of the physical resources by the number of accounts. So if there are 10 virtual servers, each would be allocated 10% of the total bandwidth, CPU, memory and disk space. The control that a VPS account provides can get you into a real mess if you don’t understand what you are doing. You are capable of deleting files, setting permissions improperly, allowing virus-laden software on the system and, in general, really putting your website in jeopardy. If you don’t have the skills necessary to administer a server, or are not able to get assistance, VPS is not a wise choice for you. If your website has grown beyond the capabilities of shared hosting, then, VPS may offer an affordable option to dedicated hosting. Be certain to ascertain how system resources are divvied up, how many VPS accounts are on each physical server, how you upgrade if needed, and what the choices of operating systems are.

Virtual Private Servers (vps) – a Guide

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Web Hosting, if tarred with as broad a brush as possible, is split into Shared and Dedicated Hosting. There are those who purchase a space on a server for their own use, and then there are those who just buy the server. A bit like buying a plane ticket, or buying a plane (except the difference between a return to Oslo and a Cessna are a bit more pronounced).

There is a bridge over these troubled waters, however. It’s known as VPS (Virtual Private Server – it’s also known as VDS, Virtual Dedicated Server, but that’s not as common, presumably because it leads to confusion with old fashioned displays and sounds like something unsavoury you might catch on a night out in Calcutta). VPS allows freedom from the constraints of Shared Hosting, without the expense or expertise of a Dedicated server.

A Shared Hosting server typically has an operating system installed on it, and the host then installs the software they want – they set the server exactly as they like it, and then customers pay them certain amounts of money to purchase a little space on the server. The customer has as much control over that space as the host will let them, and their performance will be based on however many customers are Sharing the server (hundreds, perhaps). Remember that a server is just like your computer at home or at work – and just like your computer, it has a certain amount of memory and a certain speed of processor, and it can only do so many things at once before it has to start putting people in a queue (this is the point where your site may seem slower than usual).

A Dedicated server works the same as a Shared server, except the owner of the server has far more control over what is on their server. Like the hosting company with the Shared server, the owner of the Dedicated can pick the operating system, what software is installed, and how many sites run on the server. If a Dedicated server is set up specifically for one site and is configured for that site alone, that site will run considerably faster than a site on a Shared server. It doesn’t have to share resources and it can be built purely for the purposes of running that site.

VPS sits between these two types of hosting. There are several kinds of VPS, but we will focus on software VPS. In this instance, the host will buy the server, and install an Operating System (OS) on it. They then use another program (i.e. Virtuozzo) to create several isolated Virtual Servers (sometimes known as Containers) on the server. Each of these Containers is a Virtual Server – they function as if they were stand-alone, Dedicated Servers, when in actual fact they are a more advanced form of Shared hosting!

Compared to Shared hosting, VPS has many benefits. To begin with, Shared hosting comes with no performance guarantees. That’s not to say that Shared hosting is slow – it’s just that some sites require a lot more resources than others, and a few busy or intensive sites on a full Shared server could well impact the performance of everyone else (try opening a few basic programs on your computer at once , keep them open, and then see how well your computer runs when you start a virus scan – those basic programs aren’t so responsive now, are they?).

With a VPS, your Container will come with a guaranteed proportion of the server’s resources. This usually comes in the form of RAM (Memory) available – for instance, your VPS might come with a guaranteed 256 or 512 MB of RAM. This means that, regardless of how many people there are on the server, regardless of how busy their sites are, you always, always have that much memory available for you to use. Some companies also advertise the ‘burst’ memory available to you as well. This is essentially the memory that you could conceivably use, assuming that everyone else isn’t using their quota. However ‘burst’ memory is a subjective term – as there are no guarantees on how often this memory will be available to you (beyond the length of a piece of string), it’s more a fancy figure to impress potential customers with.

As a Container is purchased with a guaranteed RAM quota, there will be far fewer customers sharing a VPS server than there would be sharing a, er, Shared server. So the CPU won’t be divided between as many clients and their respective demands on it, so speeds will improve and the load on the CPU will decrease. All in all – your hosting will be noticeably faster. Again, some hosts will advertise CPU preferences, server contention rates etc., to demonstrate how the more expensive VPS packages will take preference to some degree over the cheaper packages when requesting resources from the CPU. How much this makes an impact on your decision to buy that VPS or not is up to you; many hosts don’t make any preferences between packages whatsoever.

The other major benefit to a VPS is the extra control that you will have over your hosting. If you’ve managed to find someone who does hardware VPS, then you’ll be able to pick your own OS as well (hardware VPS, essentially, creates the VPS on a hardware level rather than a software level – the good part; you can do whatever you like with your VPS – the bad part; the hardware, rather than shared, is divided, so instead of having the use of, for instance, a 2gHz processor and a guaranteed 256MB of RAM, you get a .5gHz processor and a guaranteed 256 MB of RAM if 4 people are sharing your server). From here you can configure your hosting as you see fit – customise your PHP settings, install PHP x, Zend whatever, Hardy Heron and/or Peggle (not recommended for a work environment). Even better, as your VPS is essentially a Virtual Machine, you can take snapshots of your entire VPS – so your whole account can be backed up into a single file, and then should something go horribly wrong, you can use the snapshot to restore the VPS in its entirety.

VPS will, of course, cost more than Shared Hosting, but on the flip side of the coin it is considerably cheaper than a Dedicated server. If performance is more of an issue for you than cost then a Dedicated is the way forward – a VPS will never be able to command the amount of resources that a Dedicated server used for the same purpose can. But as a cost-effective solution to providing a significant performance boost to your hosting, as well as allowing yourself a greater degree of control – VPS is hard to fault.

*Please note – I’ve been to Calcutta. I’m not implying that the place is unsavoury, disreputable, or otherwise trying to smear the good name of Calcutta in any way – it just seemed to round the sentence off nicely!

Why is Vps Better Than Shared Hosting?

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If you’re planning to start an on-line enterprise, or if you’ve already got one, you’ll know that there are many different web hosting plans out there – each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. The least expensive is very popular shared hosting with hundreds of web sites all sharing a single, very large hard drive. However this type of Hosting is not always well suited for all sites, especially for high traffic sites, because it is not always possible to isolate each website from other sites that share the server. The really big sites employ dedicated servers. One company. One server.

In between these two options is virtual private server, or VPS. VPS is less expensive (much less) than a dedicated or private server, and offers more freedom and many more options to a growing on-line business than shared hosting. With a Virtual Private Server, each web hosting account receives their own operating system. Users can configure these components without affecting other users on the same physical machine because they are working within their own virtual server. Moreover a VPS hosting environment can be smoothly scaled to even more powerful physical hosts as demand increases. In the long run, hosting on a VPS can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership.

VPS isn’t suitable for every site owner. Some people wish to host a low-to-moderate traffic website and are happy with the level of control offered by a web hosting control panel like cPanel or Plesk. These individuals will prefer Shared Hosting for its perceived simplicity and ease of use: they generally do not have linux system administration experience and they are not interested in picking up any. Other have outgrown their shared hosting account or aren’t happy with site performance (30-second download times) then it’s definitely time to move up to a VPS account. A good web hosting company will help you migrate from your shared account to a VPS account without any breakdowns or hassles.
Do I Need VPS? If you plan to expand, offering more products and services, then consider a VPS plan even as a start-up. The difference in price between a good shared hosting plan and a good VPS plan is negligible in the whole bang-buck equation.

These are the main advantages:

PERFORMANCE
Shared server accounts are always dependent on the performance and good behavior of neighboring accounts. If one account violates their terms of service and sends out a mass-mailing of spam, this will load the server and negatively impact the performance of all accounts on that server.
VPS have guaranteed resources. One customer can not run away with a large share of the resources. You service will run reliably and predictably. If you have a bad VPS neighbor, they will tend to impact only their own account, as each account appears like a separate server to the Internet. They will not be able to grab your memory when you need it, get your server blacklisted, etc.

HIGH CUSTOMIZABILITY
Virtual Private Servers are very feature rich. They are functionally equivalent to a dedicated server. Some applications require that certain ports and/or protocols be opened or closed in the firewall. With Shared hosting, custom firewall configurations are not advisable for security reasons. Under the VPS, custom firewall configurations are feasible because of the partitioning between customers.
With a VPS, you can close ports using the IPTables feature.
You have your own IP Address.
You have Root Access.
Freedom to reboot your VPS at any time.
You can customize services such as web, mail, database, panels, domains
and much more…
The only limitation is you are not able to install your own kernel. This is due to the nature of how a VPS work.

SECURITY
Shared hosting is inherently difficult to secure completely. If an account on a shared server is broken into, the criminal may cause damage to the entire server, causing extended outages. If a spammer causes the server to get blacklisted with Spam organizations, this may impact other accounts that produce legitimate mailings until the server is whitelisted again.
VPS accounts are insulated from each other, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access from hackers as well as other customers. The isolation of your account also minimizes the risk of being impacted by a DoS attack that was intended for someone else.

SCALABILITY
Virtual private servers are inherently scalable – whether you need a minimal allocation to run a simple e-mail server or virtual private network end-point or a webserver with enough resources to support extensive database applications and heavy traffic, there is always a VPS hosting plan to meet your needs. Moreover you can anytime easily downgrade or upgrade your service with very little or no downtime!

UNLIMITED WEBSITES
Another advantage to VPS is the ability to manage numerous web sites. You won’t run into problems with hardware sharing even if you run a dozen different sites. Your access to server assets is assured through the use of server-side software such as Apache Virtual Hosts and similar VPS packages. VPS hosting plans are a bit pricier than shared hosting. But with more and more sites coming on-line (approximately 6,000 a day!) VPS offers better value for your server dollars when you can host as many sites as you want. When considering VPS plans, amortize the monthly costs over the number of sites you anticipate creating. You’ll quickly see that VPS monthly costs are consistently lower than shared hosting on a per site basis.

There may be a little downside to VPS for some people. VPS = more responsibility. That means you are responsible for many of the software installations, site maintenance, site security and many of the other responsibilities that come with on-line business ownership. If you don’t know much about server side administration, VPS may be a bit more than you want to take on yourself. This is something to farm out to an expert if you’re not familiar with maintaining a VPS, but you still need the power and control of VPS.
The solution  – get a managed vps, the hosting provider will take care of those things for you and you can pay full attention to your websites content.

Virtuozzo VPS

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About Virtuozzo VPS – Guide and Details

Virtual private servers are used to get the result of multiple servers using a single physical server. The single server is logically divided to get the effect of multiple servers. The virtual servers are fully independent and can operate on their dedicated operating system. The performance of one server never influences that of another server. There exists maximum security and isolation in the working of virtual private servers.

Virtuozzo VPS is such a virtual private server product introduced by SWsoft. This has many virtual servers working truly isolated from one another and connected to a single server. The servers connected can share the hardware, load, traffic and even the software licenses between them. The Virtuozzo uses the virtualization implemented at operating system level. This has a high capacity that the maximum number of virtual servers that can be connected to a single server can vary from ten to hundreds.

The virtuozzo VPS demands the virtual servers to run on the same OS as that of their host server. The host running on Windows 2003 should have all the virtual environments (VE) to run on Windows 2003. Each VE can possess its own files, applications and processes and is capable of existing as if it were an independent server. The access is provided through inter connections in network.

The operating level virtualization used by Virtuozzo VPS partitions the kernel among the servers. The virtual servers run the instances of the kernel rather than a single kernel. This is a lighter method than other virtualization techniques and so adding up the load in the virtual environment is not a big deal in Virtuozzo VPS.

The critics of Virtuozzo VPS point out that since the OS is duplicated and there is actually only one server, the users who require more than one server for their development purposes, can’t get the benefit from Virtuozzo VPS. Also they point out the lack of a high security and privacy in Virtuozzo. But SWsoft have numerous reasons to oppose these sayings about Virtuozzo VPS. They claim that Virtuozzo ensure security and isolation to the same extend that any other VPS offers. Even though they are running on a single OS, they are independent in having all files and libraries on their own. The administration is highly powerful in Virtuozzo even though a single server runs the original operating system for all the virtual servers.

Because of the flexibility that Virtuozzo offers in having the multiple virtual servers, they are having high demands among all sorts of users. The benefit of addition of servers as required by the user will help to reduce the traffic to a considerable amount. The load can be simply added to the root server without much effort. The only action required is to create an instance of the operating system. Thus Virtuozzo software has been a successful venture in virtual private server environment.

DirectAdmin VPS Hosting

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DirectAdmin

DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.

System requirements

DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.

The following specifications are recommended:
Processor: 500 MHz
Memory: 128 MB
HDD Space: minimal 2 GB free space

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Plesk VPS Hosting

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The Parallels Plesk Panel (ex: Parallels Plesk Control Panel, Plesk Server Administrator, PSA) software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk became an SWsoft product when SWsoft acquired Plesk Inc. in July 2003.^[1] Parallels Plesk Panel is now shipped under Parallels, Inc. since Swsoft rebranded itself as Parallels (an existing namebrand in its portfolio) in January 2008.^[2] At that time, Plesk was rebranded as Parallels Plesk Panel.^[3]

Overview

Parallels Plesk Panel allows a server administrator to set up new websites, reseller accounts, e-mail accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface. The administrator can create client and site templates, which predetermine resource allocation parameters for the domains and/or clients.

Parallels Plesk Panel for Linux/UNIX supports multiple POSIX platforms, including Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux, SUSE and Ubuntu. Parallels Plesk Panel for Windows supports Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.

Parallels Plesk Panel installs custom versions of or manages versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases (Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine under Windows), Apache Tomcat Java platform server, ColdFusion server, as well as CounterStrike and Battlefield 1942 game servers.

Add-ons

Parallels Plesk Panel has several software packs that are not part of the main Parallels Plesk Panel code base. These add-ons are designed to fully interact with Parallels Plesk Panel. These Parallels Plesk Panel software packs include functionality for billing, website building, and multiple server support.

They include:

• Parallels Plesk Billing
• Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder
• Parallels Plesk Expand

Version history

Reported Issues

Some users have complained that Plesk is not secure in the sense of multihosting security since all virtual hosts are run under the same Apache user and share the same configuration. However, in Plesk 7.5.6 for Windows and onward, all virtual hosts can run under their own worker process group, secured using their own respective IIS user. In Plesk for Linux, one could use the apache2-mpm-itk (Multi-Processing Module) or the alternative suexec+fastcgi+php solution – both of which are not directly related to plesk itself . Plesk also defaults to port 8443 for https applications, this clashes with both Microsoft ISA servers and Microsoft Small Business Servers, which disallow non standard ports for https.

Plesk offers users the possibility to install web applications with just a few mouse clicks using the APS-standard. On the downside it’s not always possible to upgrade these applications as easily to fix security problems which might lead to vulnerable servers.

Interface

The Plesk control panel uses a SSL-enabled web based GUI, using frames.

Backup and restore

One shortcoming in Plesk’s data backup and restore functionality is the mechanism by which Plesk stores backup files, using server disk space before uploading files to a separate FTP server. Because Plesk backup files can be quite large, this mechanism effectively limits the usable server storage space, forcing administrators to choose between not backing up data or leaving large amounts of storage unused.

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