Articles covering VPS architecture, storage design, performance testing, and operational transparency for BuyVPS.com.
Milliseconds cost conversions. For US East Coast end users, VPS hosting in the USA is the shortest path between your code and your customers. Location does matter, and the question is, which hosting provider is giving you the hardware, the network, and the control to actually make a difference in that location. Not all US-based […]
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Before you know it, your growing application will outgrow the shared hosting environment. A Hosted VPS provides you with the control you need, without the associated capital expenditures to maintain the hardware. Your decision isn’t just VPS or not. As a cloud hosting company, BuyVPS publishes the benchmark numbers for our physical server hardware (Geekbench […]
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When choosing between cloud hosting and VPS, you are deciding whether you need elastic infrastructure to scale as needed, or fixed dedicated resources that actually work for you. Both host types solve different problems, and choosing the wrong one will result in either poor performance or excess costs. In contrast, a VPS gives you a […]
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Paying for infrastructure with Bitcoin keeps hosting spend off the corporate card, enables fast provisioning, and avoids cross-border wire transfer headaches. Choosing wrong will make you pay with noisy neighbors that eat into your CPU budget and storage bottlenecks under real I/O load. Additionally, Worst case, a provider that disappears as soon as you try […]
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While price is a factor in choosing a VPS web hosting account, more important is the quality of the VPS account and how it will perform when put to use. And, as with anything else these days, there is always the possibility that prices will increase when it comes time to renew your account. It […]
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Shared hosting is generally bad for your website’s performance because there are no isolations of the shared resources. With VPS hosting, you can give each workload its own slice of the physical server (as opposed to virtual) for a guaranteed amount of RAM, dedicated storage I/O. Additionally, Fixed amount of CPU (which doesn’t drop when […]
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Deciding between VPS vs VPN solutions can make technical teams scratch their heads since the two terms sound so similar. It is very common for people managing website files, or even hosting companies themselves, to confuse these products and purchase a dedicated server or cloud resource that doesn't fit their needs, wasting money in the […]
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Deciding between VPS vs cloud hosting is rarely a clear cut decision as both types of hosting are often marketed with similar claims and there are only subtle differences between the two models when it comes to pricing at first. Both types of hosting are used in production environments all over the world and serve […]
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Shared hosting falls apart under load. Not all VPS hosting is created equal. Unlike shared and dedicated hosting, a VPS should offer isolation, yet the actual server it runs on can still be heavily loaded with other accounts, and the memory limit may be soft. Outdated hardware is another common problem, often buried in marketing […]
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Deciding between a VPS server, cloud hosting and the mix of both is one of the biggest decisions for a development team in terms of the underlying infrastructure. The market has made this harder than it needs to be by referring to “cloud VPS” to everything from renting bare metal servers to multi-tenant instances on […]
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When renting a VPS you have full control of dedicated computer resources without the burden of a physical server. There are three simple things to consider when choosing a virtual private server VPS: the quality of the hardware, the reliability of the network, and last but not least the transparency of the pricing. All three […]
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budget VPS hosts often cut in the areas where it hurts the most. Additionally many VPSes share the same CPU resources which often lead to a huge performance hit. Lastly a cheap VPS’s hardware is usually not designed to last under load. So a VPS will benchmark extremely well right off the bat, but by […]
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