What exactly is a VPS?

Essentially, Virtual Private Server technology (VPS, sometimes known as a Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is a means of splitting a dedicated server into multiple, completely separate, independent "virtual private servers".

For almost all purposes, each of these VPSes acts as a dedicated server, utilizing its allocation of the node's RAM, CPU, disk space, and bandwidth resources. A VPS is also similar to a dedicated server in that it runs its own operating system instance, and can be independently rebooted.

One additional powerful feature of VPS platforms is the capability for a VPS to use more than its allocated resources at times -- a concept called "burstability". Burstability is possible because it is statistically unlikely that all VPSes on a system will have need of its full CPU and memory resources simultaneously -- in other words, when other VPSes are idle or not using much memory, those resources are transparently temporarily re-allocated to other VPSes that can utilize them.

Empowered By Virtuozzo

Although there are many virtualization solutions available for VPS providers, we have selected the industry leading virtualization system -- Parallels' Virtuozzo to empower our VPS platforms. Not only does Virtuozzo offer the powerful features discussed above, in combination with our powerful client area, it enables our clients to very easily manage all aspects of their VPS' operations, ranging from file management to VPS reboots to system-wide backups.