To start a VPS hosting company
Posted On Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 By Ravi
A virtual private server is a miniature server that would have dedicated resources such as hard disk space and memory, which will remain solely dedicated to the user of the vps and will ntobe touched by other users. These resources are usually shared from a huge server. It is just like shared hosting, but the only thing is that you get dedicated resources, a dedicated file system and root access to that dedicated system. It would be configured as a web server with the help of server virtualization software such as openvz, xen or virtuozzo. You cannot start selling vps with just any server and a few vps licneses. The virtualization software consumes a good amount of resources of its own. So you will need a real monster server with about 8 to 16 cores of processors and 16 to 32 gb of ram and a huge array of hard drives. At that scale, you can set up upto 300 vps on the server without much problems offering a 256 MB dedicated ram to each user and a 10 gb space. Hardware is an important factor to be considered in servers. It is not as easy as selecting your door Continue Reading