Choosing Between Virtual Servers, Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers

Now that you have initiated your company website, paid for a beautiful design and selected your domain name, it is time to choose the web's hosting service company that best suits your company's needs. You will be able to select from various options including a shared virtual server, a VPS (virtual private server) or a dedicated server. Which one you choose will most likely be decided on your web hosting needs, the likelihood of continuing business growth and your current budget considerations.
Leasing the Server
Finding the optimal website hosting company to house your company's website is an important decision in running your business. There are numerous online companies dedicated to providing high-quality customer service. Companies such as Magento Web Hosting, Host Monster, Fat Cow and others lease their servers on a monthly and yearly basis. Having an account with any one of them allows you to quickly upload and transfer your entire online website, handle all the web traffic you need, and minimize your overhead costs all while delivering optimal performance of your e-commerce store.
The Virtual Server
Virtual server web hosting is becoming the alternate choice to consumers and businesses alike. Typically, when signing up for a web hosting provider you may not actually realize that your account resides on a virtual machine. Most every type of virtual operating system is running on a mainframe computer that is most likely shared with hundreds of other accounts.
Dedicated Versus Shared Web Hosting
There is not much difference between using a dedicated server as versus a shared virtual server, except for the price per month. While a dedicated server is strictly inputting and outputting only your company information when connected to the web, a virtual server web hosting does exactly the same thing, but at a lower cost, with lower maintenance, providing you with an extremely efficient hosting solution. The savings of using a shared virtual server is passed on to you, the consumer.
Selecting the Best Hosting Plan
One of the essential features of a VPS (Virtual Private Server) is that it bridges the gap between a shared virtual server web hosting and dedicated server web hosting while still providing high levels of security for your business. Your online company will be protected from Internet intruders including worms, Trojans, spammers and bugs.
Handling and Directing Web Traffic
Everyone uses a business plan that ensures the amount of business will consistently grow over time. As the size of the business escalates, through Internet sales, the company will most likely experience heavier web traffic. Effectively managing that growth is easy to accomplish with a virtual private server (VPS).
The very definition of a VPS server is that it is one of many individualized single servers which is partitioned off of the main server. While your particular website hosting partition shares space on the mainframe computer, as a virtual private server your VPS will have total security from everyone else sharing space on the computer. Additionally, with a sub-server, sharing space with others using the same server for their website hosting, your VPS online business will not "go down" should any other account using the same server need to reboot.