| There are several choices for you to make when it | | | | have separations among the apartments, this means |
| comes to hosting, you will have to decide whether or | | | | that all of your tenants will be sharing the same |
| not you are going to use a virtual environment, a | | | | resources and space, what a VPS does is that it |
| collocated server, a VPS or virtual private server or | | | | separates the space and resources available into |
| even a dedicated machine, these may all sound like big | | | | "apartments" -- by using this structure none of the |
| words to you but in a matter of a few months to a | | | | tenants will be used in the resources or space that |
| year you will become very familiar with them. The | | | | their neighbors are using, this system isolates them in a |
| most popular hosting package that you might have | | | | very efficient way, if we applied the very same |
| signed up for is the virtual or shared package, this is a | | | | concept to a hosting environment we can separate |
| great starter deal that you could use in order to test | | | | the accounts that are placed on a specific server so |
| the waters -- so to speak. | | | | that they don't use the same space and resources |
| If you have a business and starting hosting your | | | | that the others are using, this is very similar to the way |
| website using the most basic plan then it is normal for | | | | he dedicated servers act. |
| you to want to upgrade to the next available deal | | | | By having your own space, memory and processing |
| which will expand your resources and bring to you a | | | | power you will effectively have a dedicated account |
| trouble-free server, this is were the virtual Private | | | | which is not interrupted by the way other people are |
| server comes in. A VPS is very similar to hold a virtual | | | | managing their space and resources in other words, if |
| server and a dedicated server so it can be said that it | | | | your neighbor starts to use a lot of RAM or a hard |
| offers the best of both worlds which is a relatively low | | | | drive space it will not affect your account even though |
| price and the benefits found on a dedicated machine. | | | | you are hosted in the same machine, a VPS also |
| In order to illustrate how a VPS works will make | | | | provides features which are only found in dedicated |
| reference to the way an apartment complex works. | | | | machines for instance, you can reboot your VPS |
| Let's imagine that you have an apartment complex | | | | without affecting the other accounts which are placed |
| which is able to accommodate 15 families within its 15 | | | | on the same server. This is a very useful account |
| deluxe rooms, the entire apartment complex is the | | | | which will provide a great transition towards a true |
| web server, on a shared environment you wouldn't | | | | dedicated account. |