As many already know DesdeLinux since 2 months ago in GnuTransfer.com servers, specifically our services are distributed in 2 VPS. The issue is that some may wonder what a VPS is, or better, do I really need one of those? That is why I bring you this article written by Marco Velazquez related to VPS and the like:
For a long time, the interest of having a presence on the Internet has become a very common topic, whether on social networks or having your own website. Why have your own website?
Because you can sell products online, work from home having a virtual store, or create your own blog where you can share interesting information for people, tutorials, manuals or new technological tools; We have a clear example here in DesdeLinux, where we find sources of information that help us learn and know more about Linux.
So taking this concern of having your own website, it is necessary to know what type of hosting It suits you, the type of provider and the plan that it offers you, features in software, hardware and especially the type of server you need to host your website.
In this post I will address the specific issue of VPS servers.
What is a VPS server?
A VPS is a virtual server, for its acronym in English Virtual Private Server, which although it is private, works on a physical server that in turn houses other VPS, however, each VPS is isolated from the others.
These types of servers allow you to manage the space on the hard disk and also the management of the RAM memory although a VPS can be more complex for those who do not have technical knowledge in computer science or computer systems.
A VPS server handles the intermediate step between the dedicated server and the common server, there is much more variety in a VPS than in the previous ones.
Advantages of a VPS server
The biggest advantage that I can see of this server is that they are 100% upgradeable, that is, as the server supports it, we can increase the RAM memory, the CPU speed, or the speed of the Ethernet port.
The difference of a common shared hosting is that you do not depend on the users, and you are responsible for the uptime of the server, as I mentioned before it is isolated from the other VPS, that is, if another user is occupying 100% of the CPU this does not it affects your VPS.
One more advantage is the variety of options found when selecting the operating system; you can choose which Linux distro or which version of Windows Server you will use.
Next I will give you some informative tips to be able to choose your VPS:
Firstly, it should be mentioned that you can find 2 types of VPS servers, the "manageable and unmanageable" or "Managed and Unmanaged", each of these has its advantages and disadvantages and the decision to select the right one depends on you and your knowledge of Linux.
Managed VPS
Advantages:
- You do not need to have knowledge of Linux or Windows servers
- In a few minutes you have your hosting online
- Technical support is better compared to Unmanaged
Disadvantages
- In this type of servers the software that the providers want to install depends on, since they will give you technical support
- You do not have 100% access to your VPS server
- The price is higher unlike the Unmanaged
Unmanaged VPS
Advantages:
- Here you can choose which programs to install and which not
- You have 100% access to your VPS server
- The price is lower than the managed
Disadvantages:
- You absolutely need to have knowledge of Linux or Windows Server.
- Technical support is very little.
With this information you can start to make your decision about which VPS is right for you, the key factor is your knowledge of Linux.
Another important factor before choosing a VPS plan is RAM.
This can also be divided into two categories: dedicated, which is a type of memory that is physically available on the VPS server, and Burstable, which is not physically available, but is only to be used in emergencies.
An example to have a clearer idea is that if you have a site that has between 3000 and 6000 visits, a VPS with 384 RAM would be good to start.
I hope this article has been of your benefit and helps you decide if a VPS server is the best option for you.
Very good article. Furthermore, I hope it will be useful to store a website of average popularity.
Good article!
Something that is never clear to me and is never mentioned, is the concurrence… We always speak of unique visits, but never of people simultaneously online.
Do you have any statistics regarding Resources / Online Users?
Regards!
At this moment in DesdeLinux (blog) there are just over 50 people online simultaneously, the number varies between 50 and 200 depending on the time of day.
Good! And the memory in those cases still does not exceed 384MB?
What web server do you run on? The blog is made in PHP?
We use NGinx and the Blog is a WordPress, so yes, we use PHP.
They could publish a nginx + wordpress tutorial, well I managed it but with a few manuals and it doesn't work very well for me to say
I really do not recommend using a VPS, especially if you have already tried hosting in the cloud (cloud). Basically, the difference is that while in a VPS you have a server that you can manage almost at will, in a cloud server you have one or two computers where the information is stored (because the disks are there) and some other servers where the information is copied to be distributed. The difference in speed is impressive.
the difference in prices is even more impressive.
It should be clarified that if your portal is institutional or blog type, there is no need for VPS or dedicated. A vps is required if you are really going to use the shell, install certain things that do not come by default (rubi, nginx, another distro, etc.), control processes and memory, place several websites on your hosting, etc.
All common hosting have php, FTP, SQL and a post manager
Not necessarily. This is just a blog and its traffic is so much that a simple Webhosting can not stand it. A webhosting usually only offers Apache, and that's where the VPS comes in, because we can install something else, in this case NGinx.
I am testing a VPS in Gnutransfer, the truth is that it is going well, although I still do not put the sites online.
I'm waiting for the Gnupanel 2 campaign to come out to see what happens.
And let's see if I say to God Hostgatos ...
Well I'm sure you will be delighted .. 😉
Another important thing to note is that there are different "types" of vps depending on the type of virtualization, although we could classify them into 2 large groups: openvz and similar which offer less flexibility in the choice of system / kernel but provide better performance, scalability , density, management of dynamic resources, burst, and ease of administration for being virtualization by OS, they are also cheaper but allow overselling; the other group would be xen and the like, with a more predictable behavior, it gives you a lot of what a dedicated, at a low cost in performance.
I totally disagree with this part
"An example to get a clearer idea is that if you have a site that has between 3000 and 6000 visits, a 384 RAM VPS would be good to start with."
Well, if you don't know how to optimize your memory, close processes, leave Crons running in the srvr, etc., that amount of ram memory is really insufficient
Congratulations, it is a very well detailed article,
What really weighs when purchasing a virtual server - vps is the number of simultaneous connections, the greater the number of simultaneous visits, the greater the amount of Memory and CPU Consumption, a shared hosting limits you in that sense [they give you 1 CPU and 512MB or 1GB of RAM], which will not support that have a large number of concurrences [approximately 30 - 50 concurrences], it is from that moment that you already have to think about a VPS, which you will customize [increase more RAM or CPUs] according to the growth or increase of visitors simultaneously to your website.