Articles covering VPS architecture, storage design, performance testing, and operational transparency for BuyVPS.com.
Your database continues to grow, your object store nears its limits and your stock VPS struggles to keep up with the I/O load. A high-capacity VPS server gives you lots of disk space and the required computing power to process all of this. In contrast to separate managed storage services, you don't have to worry […]
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Storage bottlenecks are among the fastest ways to kill application performance, and a SSD-backed VPS is often the fix. Not all SSD VPS plans are created equal. While a SATA SSD shared among many users on a very packed server may deliver low IOPS in real world usage. A PCIe-attached NVMe SSD in a very […]
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For many developers, the transition from shared hosting to self managed VPS hosting occurs when shared hosting begins to impede performance in order to ensure proper functioning of other websites on the same server. Developers rely on root access to adjust config files and manage CPU usage without being throttled. While self managed VPS hosting […]
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In infrastructure decisions, there is always the same pressure: get compute online quickly and don’t throw away your money for hardware that you might not need in 6 months. Renting a VPS gives you the same server resources (CPU, RAM, NVMe storage, IP address) faster than physical hardware and for a fraction of the price. […]
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When comparing prices for VPS from OVH to those of its competitors, the initial purchase price looks to be very competitive. In many cases the initial price and the real monthly cost of running VPS servers on OVH is very different once you factor in things such as bandwidth overages. Additional features for the control […]
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Selecting a Netherlands VPS server is more than just choosing a data center location from a map. Amsterdam is located at one of Europe's most dense Internet Exchange points. This means that your workloads will have low latency paths to users across the continent. This routing advantage is compounded with every database query, API call, […]
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Choosing a good managed VPS host can save your team a ton of time and toil. What does “managed” really mean? How much control will you have? Too many teams sign up for a managed VPS based on a host's feature checklist, only to discover that "managed" means a shared cPanel setup with a chatbot […]
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A managed cloud VPS environment moves OS patches, security config tweaks, and performance fine-tuning out of your engineers' way so they can focus on features instead of servers. Not all managed hosting is equal, though, some offer thin automation and call it server management, while others provide truly engineer-led service capable of handling traffic spikes […]
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Looking for a low cost VPS server which doesn’t sacrifice any performance in the process of saving you money is very difficult to find these days as the market place is full of extremely cheap offerings which advertise low prices but secretly over-sell underpowered servers. Limit CPU usage or slap huge price hikes on for […]
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budget VPS hosting seems like an easy thing to compare between different hosts. Good news! Cost-effective VPS hosting does not have to mean unreliable VPS hosting. The right hosting provider can deliver dedicated resources, NVMe storage and a proven network while offering low cost VPS hosting. What separates a genuinely reliable low-cost VPS from what […]
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Your Linux VPS host choice affects whether your application scales well with growth or constantly fights against the limitations of your host. Inadequate choices include noisy neighbors consuming all of your server environment's CPU, unexpected price increases, and being forced to interact with robots in order to submit support questions. Optimal hosts provide solid, consistent […]
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Your application may perform well in staging but then degrade in your production kernel based virtual machine environment due to noisy neighbors, shared kernel panics, or hypervisor decisions you have no control over. KVM VPS hosting solves infrastructure-level isolation by giving your virtual machines their own kernel, isolated memory, and dedicated I/O on a physical […]
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