Comments on: A Complete Guide to VPS Hosting

By: Charlie-brm

Charlie-brm — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:25:33 +0000

As the end user with some web sites of my own to take care of, discovering they are part of a VPS has become a liability. The previous owner of the domains I purchased as part of a business transfer left the hosting concerns up to a friend.
Now I have to get in touch with this person for some routine tasks because the server company won’t deal directly with me. In their eyes, its his account, he’s paying the bills.
Just a caveat to people designing their own business sites. I’m sure if I was a semi-professional web developer, I’d think VPS was a great idea. I’ll be transferring the domains asap to another host.

By: fu

fu — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:20:57 +0000

This is just the information I was looking to find. Thanks for putting together such a great article.

By: John

John — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:00:33 +0000

Great article, I have been using shared hosting for years and I have just established my first VPS set up, answered a few questions I had – Thanks

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:28:43 +0000

Excellent article. I’ve been hosting on an eboundhost VPS for the past year and loving it.

By: Reza

Reza — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:52:34 +0000

Wow! Thank you for this great yet clear guide on VPS. I just ordered one today and I was feeling being in nowhere about when I logged in my VPS account but reading through your article helped me a lot.

By: Swamykant

Swamykant — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:15:49 +0000

Hi Blue.

I am currently using the Shared hosting server for blog- yourdigitalspace.com.Last two days it has used more that 25% CPU..

I think it is the right times to shift to VPS. I am planning to use either Hostgator VPS, Linode or Knownhost.

Which you thinks the best for VPS ?

By: Fatuma

Fatuma — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:38:56 +0000

I need somebody to assist in processes of configuration of web server

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:05:32 +0000

The section about Burstable Ram is inaccurate. Unfortunately, given its name – “burstable” it leads people to simply assume instead of actually researching the topic to better understand what it is. This false definition is also spread around by the less knowledgeable hosts on various discussion boards.

Burstable ram is not some magical shared pool of idle memory where a single VPS can gain access to in the event of the digg-effect. Instead, it’s a part of the OpenVZ technology and how it calculates memory usage which is based on memory allocated rather than actual memory used. Therefore, it is NECESSARY to have a higher burstable ram vs guaranteed, somewhere around 1.5x to 2x the amount. Since allocated memory is counted against your memory usage, OpenVZ needs this extra burstable memory to allocate adequate memory for programs and applications. It doesn’t mean you’ve actually USED the amount, simply allocated. To get a better sense of what’s going on behind the scenes in terms of memory usage in an OpenVZ VPS, look at the /proc/user_beancounters file.

By: Creazione Siti

Creazione Siti — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:42:16 +0000

Very good article. It helped me decide that what I really needed was a VPS host for my websites. Thanks for all the informations and effort you put into this article.

By: carlosmagnus

carlosmagnus — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:40:12 +0000

This is very helpful articles just right now im on shared hosting but sooner or later im going to jump to VPS so i have an idea now. thanks