VPS Hosting and Parallels Virtuozzo

VPS Hosting is a class web hosting service which becomes rapidly popular among site owners. The reason for this is simple. It brings all the advantages of the dedicated hosting to site owners with small budgets. However the VPS users do not need to back up their virtual servers, something they must do in dedicated class hosting.

However the price and the backups outsourced to the VPS hosting provider are 2 of the advantages of VPS server owners. Another key advantage is that when anyone uses a virtual private server they do not have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on hardware, every time when they need an upgrade. The VPS Hosting users can easy add more resources to their plans – RAM, disc space and data transfer – every time they need to use more resources.

There are different approaches to virtualization and different virtualization techniques such as VMware\’ ESX, Xen, KVM, Virtual Iron, OpenVZ and etc. Any of them utilizes different virtualization technique. If you want to learn more about virtualization techniques read Full Virtualization, Hardware-assisted virtualization, Paravirtualization, OS Virtualization.

Parallels Virtuozzo Powered VPS Hosting

On of the most appreciated virtualization platforms – both from site owners and web hosts – is Virtuozzo Containers. It is proprietary software of Parallels based on OpneVZ. Both are the world\’s leading OS virtualization solutions. Virtuozzo Containers creates isolated containers on a physical server and OS instance. Compared to other virtualization technologies, it offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability.

According to Host Color, a VPS hosting provider, one of the long line of hosting providers that use Parallels software products, Virtuozzo has a number of key advantages that makes it preferable virtualization platform. It allows you:

• To manage a high performance virtualization solution without need of learning how to manage an Operating System
• To get scalable VPS solution and dynamic resource management.
• To fast upgrade your VPs hosting plan every time you need.
• To get a real-time change of key system resources such as CPU, memory, network, disk and etc.
• To benefit for a full native performance architecture.
• To use fully-featured client interface that enables you to convert, provision, monitor, backup, recover, analyze, troubleshoot, repair, migrate, self-manage and to execute many other operations on your Virtual Private Server.

Promotional Listing: Host Color says that its Virtuozzo powered VPS Hosting plan – VPS Start that features 256 MB RAM, 10 GB disc space and 100 GB data transfer per month – is probably of the most affordable one in the industry.