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

Server Vitrualization

Posted On Monday, March 3rd, 2008 By Ravi

A fully dedicated server has got a lot of resources that it can be shared amoung so many sites. But certain clients do not wish to let their sites bein a shared environment where others can overload, and that overload can affect your site, and your downtime could nto be compensated easily by anything. But at the same time, they might find a dedicated server for a few sites that they have to be quite expensive, and that they might not need so much of resources. What do they do? They go to virtual servers. You buy a server, and a Virtuozzo or a Xen license, install it on your OS, and you have your virtual serers on a dedicated server ready You can have as many virtual servers as your operating system permits. In linux, it is virtually unlimited, and you can create as many virutal enviromnets as you like, but a windows server has got its limitations. It also, does depend on your license. You could go for openvz for linux, the open source server virtualization software, and since it doesnt come with any licnese fee, it would cost you a lot less, though that gain would vanish Continue Reading