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Is VPS Hosting Worth It?

VPS hosting is an ideal platform for the small and medium businesses that require more resources than what shared hosting offers. Shared hosting works fine for a new business since the traffic is low. However, once the traffic to the site increases, you will need more resources.

Shared hosting is not scalable so when anybody draws more resources, the server crashes under pressure. Your host will send you alerts asking to upgrade. Dedicated servers are expensive. You will not require the complete resources that come with that machine. This is where VPS comes in.

VPS is affordable. It is slightly higher in cost than shared hosting but assures of better stability, flexibility, scalability, security, privacy. It gives your business the same control, reliability, and privacy as in a dedicated server but without the high price tag.

VPS is the first upgrade every small business must take. It is suitable for businesses that are not much concerned about the other resources but require seclusion and privacy to house their mission-critical applications. It is also useful for the developers that need to do experiments with their client sites for speed and more.

VPS hosting is also useful since it gives the clients full control and root access. You can install your own software applications and configure to suit your purpose.

The main drawback that keeps the large businesses away from the VPS is its sharing nature. The resources are split across the users which means you do not get the complete resources that a large business seeks.

Yes, VPS is worth the extra cost that a business pays when considering the shared hosting. It removes all the major limitations that one finds in shared hosting. It is an ideal choice for the growing businesses that are not prepared for the dedicated server yet mainly because of the high costs and they do not require the resources.

VPS hosting servers are created by partitioning a physical server. Each VPS runs its own copy of Operating System and functions like a dedicated server. Consider the advantages of VPS:

1. It bridges the huge gap in the cost difference between shared hosting and dedicated server hosting.
2. With VPS, you get assured resources exclusively for your use and neighbors activities will not create any disturbance to your site performance.
3. VPS gives you control. You can customize the server with your preferred applications.
4. It gives you complete privacy and isolation. Although you share the server with unknown websites, each site is kept separately. There is no way you can intrude into others area nor can they create any hindrance to your privacy.
5. VPS gives you a dedicated IP. Your business is not affected if a neighbor does something illegal and gets banned.
6. Your site is not affected if a neighbor account is compromised. In shared hosting, if one account is hacked, it will carry over to all the accounts on the server.

The only drawback that can be seen in VPS is the sharing of server and lesser resource capacity. But, that is the basic reason why VPS is so affordable than the dedicated server.