If you have a lot of websites and need more space or bandwidth you should consider an upgrade of your plan to a Virtual Private Server aka VPS, Virtual Hosting, or Virtual Dedicated Server.


What is a Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

A virtual server is the middle ground between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. You have the ability to add multiple domains to the hosting account without additional charges. If you only have a few websites with a few web pages on each you probably don't need a VPS hosting plan.

Disk Space and Bandwidth on Virtual Servers

Virtual Server accounts come with more disk space and bandwidth to accomodate the multiple domain hosting. Our favorite virtual dedicated server option comes with 500MB space and 10Gigs traffic. If you are using more than 150GB traffic you should consider an upgrade to dedicated hosting. You should also make sure there is adequate web space available on your account because un-routed spam email will use up a lot of space and bandwidth.

Benefits of Virtual Private Servers

1. More disk space included.
2. More traffic / bandwidth than shared hosting included.
3. Consolidate payments to hosting companies. Save Money!!!
4. Easy to manage multiple domains in one place.
5. More freedom for developers than shared hosting.

Drawbacks of VPS Hosting

1. If apache server crashes - all sites down! Usually a host company will partition the drive and if one customer's apache crashes only their sites go down. If you are at risk of crashes by high bandwidth you should go with dedicated hosting. If you aren't at risk you really shouldn't worry too much about this happening to you.
2. Well - That's it really!!!

Featured Virtual Dedicated Server Host

We recommend Jumpline for your Virtual Private Server Hosting needs.
6 websites for the price of one!


 

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