Have you ever considered trying a VPS? What exactly is VPS? Are there resources available to research and purchase a VPS? If you have ever pondered these questions, or are investigating VPS, then the summary below may be helpful to you.

According the VPS experts at HostMySite.com, researching and purchasing a VPS plan is straightforward. First a quick definition. Wikipedia defines VPS (at least for web hosting purposes) as: ''A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.'' Virtualization company, Parallels, refers to their flavor of virtualization thus: ''Sometimes called OS-level or shared OS virtualization, OS virtualization virtualizes servers on the operating system (kernel) layer. This creates isolated containers on a single physical server and OS instance to utilize hardware, software, data center and management efforts with maximum efficiency.''

So long story short, a VPS, or virtual private server is a way of taking a server and splitting it up into discreet fractions - with each partition having the same look and feel as a totally dedicated server (this also means root level access).

So what resources are available to research and purchase VPS hosting? Here are a few:

The developer's resource at SitePoint covers a number of web hosting technologies, including VPS. You can navigate directly into the hosting section of the site here: http://www.sitepoint.com/subcat/hosting.

Another great way to get informed regarding a wide variety of web hosting techniques, hosting plans and interact directly with the web hosting companies themselves is to attend the industry's biggest conference, HostingCon. HostingCon is held once each year in late summer. For the past two years the conference has been held in Chicago. This year's event will be held from July 28 through 30 at Navy Pier in Chicago. You can view the summary of the event at: http://www.hostingcon.com.

The VPS Hosting section at Web Hosting Talk presents myriad options for VPS hosting and resources in one convenient list which is easy to reference and compare. There are a large number of threads and discussions specific to VPS and virtual servers. The VPS area of the site can be found here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103.

Of course there are a number of great VPS articles and resources at The Hosting News as well. In addition, many of the site sponsors are offering VPS hosting packages and information on their websites. Start you search here at: http://www.thehostingnews.com.

Finally, a great way to keep totally up to date on this fast moving business is to reference Google News. Google has aggregated a wide variety of news sources, and scoured them for the exact terms you are looking for. Simple point your browser to Google, select the news tab and type in a search term related to your interests. Here is a link to get you started. It's the Google News link for VPS: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=vps+.

If you already know that you are in the market for a VPS hosting plan, you can research companies as suggested above. Alternatively, there is a well established web hosting company with award winning support that offers VPS hosting in both the Windows and Linux versions for professional developers.

Good luck in finding and setting up your VPS hosting plan!

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Published on: 2008-04-27 (100 reads)