VPS: What It Is and How It's Useful

Rob Williams · 12-02-2010, 10:00 PM

We've talked a fair bit about home virtualization in the past, but now we're going to take a different turn and tackle VPSs, or "Virtual Private Servers". In essence, a VPS is a virtual machine in the cloud, allowing you to log in from anywhere and gain nearly full control over a remote machine with tons of bandwidth to do a variety of cool things.

You can take a look at our VPS primer and then discuss it here! Further questions are welcomed!

Optix · 12-03-2010, 12:42 PM

Sweet article. Again, I'm a hardware junkie through and through but this has me curious. I'm looking forward the next installment.

Glider · 12-03-2010, 02:21 PM

I had a couple of VPS's in the past, but they were quickly replaced by dedicated boxes because the IO access was way too slow. Colocated servers ftw!

12-02-2010, 10:00 PM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	VPS: What It Is and How It's Useful We've talked a fair bit about home virtualization in the past, but now we're going to take a different turn and tackle VPSs, or "Virtual Private Servers". In essence, a VPS is a virtual machine in the cloud, allowing you to log in from anywhere and gain nearly full control over a remote machine with tons of bandwidth to do a variety of cool things. You can take a look at our VPS primer and then discuss it here! Further questions are welcomed! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

12-03-2010, 02:21 PM	#3
Glider Coastermaker Join Date: May 2009 Location: Belgium Posts: 139	I had a couple of VPS's in the past, but they were quickly replaced by dedicated boxes because the IO access was way too slow. Colocated servers ftw! __________________ There Are 10 Types Of People, Those Who Know Binary and Those Who Don't