Comments on: Virtual Private Server – Advantages for Bloggers / Web Designers (Plus a Business Idea)

By: Levs Li

Levs Li — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:27:41 +0000

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By: Business Consulting Pro

Business Consulting Pro — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:31:21 +0000

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By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:37:12 +0000

Can this be used if you have multiple web sites that you need to maintain of different servers? And would it be easy to do that?

By: rosilie

rosilie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:24:14 +0000

Hi there!

I am teaching college IT and into masteral schooling in the same line. I find this quite comprehensive and useful source to impart to my students and share with colleagues.

My best regards to you and to your efforts.

By: Electric Drum

Electric Drum — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:02:32 +0000

Thanks for the info. My subscribers are in the thousands so it sounds like it would not be a problem.

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:36:14 +0000

Laurence, there is always more than one way to do it. Call me a VPS fan, because rather than 2 servers, 1 web and 1 database, I’d rather setup a host of VPSes for load balancing and with failovers.

I’ve had this setup for a client. They are very happy to know that now there is no one single point of failure on their infrastructure. Regarding network connectivity, it takes a more advanced setup though but rarely a good datacenter will have more than 1 hour downtime in months so that probably will not worth it.

$250/mo for 2 dedicated servers are cheap, especially if they let you transfer 250gb / day or 7.5TB per month. If you’re able to get a reliable host with that budget, you have done a great job for your client, without a doubt.

As to speed, my low end VPS often perform better than other’s dedicated server during benchmarking. I am amazed how companies can get away with that kind of service and server performance. With so many companies out there, it is more about picking the right one, no matter it is shared hosting, VPS, cloud hosting, or dedicated server.

Hope I’m not confusing the readers. There really is not the better or worse hosting but more about satisfying a business need.

@Electric Drum: Even with shared hosting, you are able to handle that kind of traffic. Spurts of traffic from newsletter usually also spread across 5-24 hours or even more. Unless you have subscribers in the millions, and very high click through rate, your server will likely be able to handle that. I’m guesstimating here though. Have to know your traffic to make a more accurate recommendation.

By: Electric Drum

Electric Drum — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:56:40 +0000

I’m curious as to which would be the best solution when you have spurts of traffic rather than a continuous flow. For instance, when you have a newsletter that goes out every week or two that brings in a bunch of traffic in a fairly short time and then the traffic goes back to a lower amount the rest of the time?

By: Laurence Flynn

Laurence Flynn — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:35:39 +0000

Indeed Hendry. Shared hosting comes with its own set of dramas. Basically you can’t get better than you’re own server and if your business model can support it then I always advise people to go straight for a dedicated server. We have one client with a hugely popular blog (250gb in a day not uncommon) that needs 2 servers (1 web/1 database). Another client I know very well does over $10k/mo in arts and crafts tutorials so $250/mo for a server is well warranted. VPSes are great but they are built for control and not speed, stability or power. That’s my soapbox. :)

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:11:32 +0000

You’re right Laurence. Thanks for sharing.

Good shared hosting companies will balance their users, but still there’s no guarantee that one day one of their sites become popular and suddenly everyone fight for the same server resources.

I’ve ever been a company who was more than happy to move me, but moving to another server involves down time, changing IP address, among other things.

There’s benefits and drawbacks to each of them. :)

By: Laurence Flynn

Laurence Flynn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:54:06 +0000

People need to be aware that a VPS is often less powerful than a shared hosting solution. With shared hosting you can burst limits without getting into trouble but on a VPS the resource limits are very real. Nice article but more people need to be aware of this fact. We often have people upgrade from a reseller account to an entry level VPS and then complain that Virtuozzo is killing the container services due to memory capping out. On a shared server a provider will often balance a server between high and low users so one reseller account can often happily use 1gb memory all to itself.

Just something to think about. :)