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(The Hosting News) – Making the decision between a VPS and a dedicated server should involve the decision making process. A dedicated server has benefits over a VPS and vice-versa. A real dedicated server requires a real hardware server that stands alone to handle the websites requests. A VPS is a virtual dedicated server that handles both your requests and requests from other customers of the Web service host. You share a VPS with other people in order to get the best bang for your buck. Now, when it comes down to determining what your needs are, you should consider your wants and needs. What do you require your website to do for you as far as performance is concerned? Obviously, if you are sharing a VPS with other customers of your Web host, you’re going to experience less speed and access time performance. This is because a VPS has to handle all the requests from the other customers as well.

A dedicated server will be much faster should you ever need the performance demand. However, a dedicated server usually costs a lot more. So, now is the time to break things down and take a look at what each of the options really offers. If you have a website that makes a substantial profit and serves a great deal of customers every day, then a dedicated server is probably going to be your best option. But, if you run a smaller scale website that doesn’t have a lot of resource demands, then you can probably safely deliver your site to customers using a Virtual Private Server.

A Virtual Private Server has all the same options and functions that a dedicated server does. You still get access to your cPanel and can accomplish every task that a dedicated server does. The only difference is the performance level of the server itself. Some people elect to take a test drive of Web hosting services by signing up for a month worth of service of both a dedicated server and VPS to decide which one works better for them. This prevents them from making a costly purchasing mistake and signing up for a years contract (or more).

In order to really know whether or not you can benefit from a dedicated server and VPS, you have to gauge the performance requirements of your website. Keeping an eye on your overall processor usage, bandwidth usage and database access times will allow you to understand how choosing between the two could improve your website or online business.

For example, let’s say that you own a market place website that gets 100,000 hits per day. You are currently using a Virtual Private Server to handle the work load but have been considering the switch to a dedicated server. Instead of blindly making a purchasing decision, you decide to analyze your Web statistics to gain a better understanding of how the choice will affect your business. You notice that your website seems slow at times but much faster a few hours later. This is one of the tell-tale signs that you need to switch to a dedicated server. These servers are there to serve your website alone and will never have periodic spans of slow access times because of other customers on the server. Because of the slow access times and poor server performance, you decide to switch to a dedicated server.

Because this client is making so much money with their website, the cost of using a dedicated server actually increases the profit margin. In our next example the exact opposite is true.

Using another example, a Web hosting customer who is currently using a dedicated server notices that he or she could save money by switching to a VPS. The website doesn’t get very many hits and the decision to use a dedicated server was a bad move in the first place. So, using the same Web host, the customer makes the switch to a VPS the same day. The site is back up and running within a few hours and the speed is just as fast as it was before. The difference is, the customer ended up saving hundreds of dollars in comparison to what they were paying for the dedicated server. The site wasn’t very resource intensive to start with and only had about 5,000 visitors per month. This is an example of where a VPS could save a customer a lot of money over the expensive cost of using a dedicated server.

So, you see, in both instances of our examples, a customer can make a wise hosting decision simply by understanding the resource usage of their website. Usually, a hosting analyst will be able to tell you whether or not you will run into problems with a VPS and when a dedicated server would be a wise purchasing decision.

Dedicated or VPS – Which One Do You Need?

(The Hosting News) – Got a plan to have a personal domain website or wish to add an extension to an already existing commercial site. Well! Make sure your web hosting requirements possess all required features. A good web hosting package, include a series of beneficial features that facilitates the attainment of your much desired goals. As for instance, a personal domain site requires good storage space and enough places for photos whereas, on the other hand, commercial web hosting package has other set of requirements such as e-mail options and etc. Therefore, while you are out in the market in search of a good, productive web hosting company, ensure to check out a few essential features that your preferred web hosting company is providing. Some of these essential features are listed below.

Reliable Source: While picking up your preferred hosting service provider, ensure the fact that they have been in the business for a considerable time. Contact their current clients to know the real performance level of the company. Also, ask for referrals from the Web hosting Company before starting with the process of registration. You may also need Java Web hosting separately, hence, try to get complete information about it, if not listed on the Web site.

Package offer: Web hosting companies provide several features, out of which, there can be a few which you may never use. Hence, choose the plan according to your requirements. Inquire about Java Web hosting essentials as well. Ensure to pay only for the options you want and would use.

Package Charges: Mostly, all web hosting companies are clear with their package charges and features. However, still, it is strongly recommended to conduct a meeting with the company to fix your total expense, before registering. With certain packages, you may also find some additional charges like registration, maintenance, service, and renewal fees.

Spam and Viruses: This is a very common problem and this is why it is must for you to get complete information regarding the safety precautions you need to employ for your web hosting package and Java Web hosting enterprise.

Web hosting maintenance: A good number of issues like proper maintenance, periodic downtime, cost increment and etc, can make your hosting experience troublesome. Also, ensure that your web hosting package and Java Web hosting fees are clearly explained.

Transferring Fee: Enquire well if there are any charges for transferring web hosting package or Java Web hosting business to another site. Also, avail complete information about your flexibility if either your web hosting package or Java Web hosting business starts losing money or volume of visitors.

Essential Features that your Web Hosting Package Must Possess

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.