Focus On Hosting's Virtual Servers (also called VPS or VDS)
Each virtual server come with dedicated resources (RAM, CPU & Disk) and are operationally indistinguishable from a normal dedicated server. The host servers are powerful power efficient servers with RAID1 disks, and we typically put 10-15 VMs on each server.
Why use Virtual Servers
As most ISPs and Web professionals know, web site or email hosting is in fact a very low intensity activity for a server - that is why many cheap web hosting providers are able to squeeze thousands of sites onto one physical machine. However, for a site to perform well, it does needs a powerful machine, but it only needs the resources in short bursts.
That is where a Virtual Server comes into its own. You get all the benefits of a powerful servers resources when you need them, but cut the cost by sharing those resources when you are not using them (which is most of the time). As well as those powerful resources, the technology allows us to give you other facilities such as Raid Disk space at no additional cost.
Also, unlike other "virtual private server" / VPS or "virtual dedicated server" / VDS technologies such as Virtuozzo, vserver or vmware, technology gives true hardware-level para-virtualisation so you are not sharing resources with other users.
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