If you are looking for more control, high reliability, enhanced security and high-performance in low budget, then moving to VPS hosting would be the right decision as it will offer you every feature and same flexibility that you expect from any dedicated server.

Having a vps hosting account enables you with all the features that you don’t get in shared hosting account, and also saves your money as it is an inexpensive web hosting solution for small and medium sized businesses. To sustain your business growth, you don’t need the power of a dedicated server, a simple VPS Hosting server can do this for you.

In VPS, you still will be sharing your server with other users like shared hosting, but the only difference is that here you will have your own virtual environment that is accessible only by you. When a web server is split into multiple small, virtual servers, the users gets all the freedom and flexibility that is offered by a dedicated server, yet in cost-effective rates.

Here are some important points to check if the VPS Hosting plan is reliable or not.

Considering the Server Hardware – Before going for any VPS web host make sure what hardware they are using in server. Make sure they use dual CPU, dual quad core Xeon processors. See if the hard drives are RAID protected or not. Minimum RAID 5 will do, if wants more faster and stable server ask for RAID 10.

Control Panels – When choosing the OS, make sure they support the control panel you want on your server. Make sure that you are provided with full root access to your VPS server, in order to install any application you want mentioned under the TOS.

For most of the small and medium sized businesses, VPS hosting is an ideal choice. Just make sure to check the reliability of that hosting provider.

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Linux and Windows Dedicated Server Hosting platform both have their merits and demerits. Following are few important points which are to be kept in mind before choosing your hosting platform.

Security :

Most webmaster have misunderstanding that windows servers are more vulnerable than Linux servers but this is not true. Security issues are responsibility of administrator rather than OS. Even Linux server can be hacked if not handled properly.

If you have latest updated security patches and software for your server and is monitored round the clock by your administrator then there should not be any issue for your server so for security issues look for your server management staff rather them OS.

Access :

Both Linux and Windows Dedicated Servers Hosting plans offer you server access via FTP. Linux offers you SSH and telnet access whereas Windows hosting supports telnet and RPD for accessing server.

Databases :

Microsoft owned databases such as MS Access, MSSQL 2000, MSSQL 2005 etc are supported on Windows Hosting Plans where as MySQL is suited for Linux Hosting, although MySQL can be used with Windows Hosting too.

Cost :

Comparatively cost of Linux Dedicated Server hosting is cheaper then Windows Dedicated Server hosting. As Linux is open source and is free thus overall cost for Linux hosting gets reduced so it’s most preferred hosting platform. There was a time where operating systems made a big difference. Currently, most platforms are supported on both Linux and Windows.

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