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10-01-2009, 11:03 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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What is the use of such VPS ?
Hello,
Yesterday I saw a VPS plan.
Its configuration is
DIsk SPace - 10 GB
Traffic - 200 GB
Guaranteed RAM - 128 MB
Burstable RAM - 256 MB
Max CPU Usage (per CPU) - 80%
Full root access.
I know that can not install cPanel/WHM, Direct Admin
So whats the use or purpose of such VPS?
How many websites we can put on such VPS ?
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10-01-2009, 11:08 AM #2Uptime Aficionado
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For a small business, provided that this VPS company actually makes good on its promises, this type of VPS would actually be a wise purchase. It would easily be able to function as an email and web-server for a couple of domains.
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10-01-2009, 11:13 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Maybe they use it for file storage who knows, Look at the company ToS. Or sometime is for a personal site only like to host one domain and you just upload files threw the VPS.
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10-01-2009, 11:17 AM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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The server can also be considered the "Entry Level" VPS as well, which gives an impression of a very low cost solution for someone to select them as a hosting provider. It may be serve as a sufficient VPS for someone that wants no control panel and a static html site + email, but for those that want a more functional VPS with a control panel, this will simply be used as an Enticement Priced VPS to get a customer in the door. Then if they need an upgrade, the customer will be more likely to upgrade to a VPS with more resources with that same company instead of moving.
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10-01-2009, 11:18 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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Not everyone wants a control panel.
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10-03-2009, 10:15 AM #6WHT Addict
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128 MB RAM Virtual Server can be used for quite a few things, you can easily host multiple wordpress blogs on such a VPS.
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10-03-2009, 10:24 AM #7Aspiring Evangelist
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You can host a few things, without a big memory footprint. DA would work on it.
Something small like maybe TeamSpeak works on it.
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10-03-2009, 10:32 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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VPN, teamspeak, ventrilo, web reverse proxy... etc.
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10-03-2009, 10:38 AM #9Web Hosting Guru
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I have a such low end VPS to serve as a second DNS and mail server. Furthermore, I use another one with 256mb RAM as a development platform.
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10-03-2009, 11:32 AM #11Junior Guru
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Picture a VPS as a computer in a box, sitting on a shelf in a commercial building somewhere, plugged into power and a ethernet/internet connection. You load whatever OS you want on it and whatever that OS can do, you can do.
Like for instance, at home you could take a PC, put Ubuntu Linux on it, and while installing, select that you want to serve web pages. It installs Apache and starts it when it boots. You place your web pages into the "www" folder and then connect to the IP with your browser and there's your web pages! You have just made your own server at home!
The only difference is that there are 20 or more "PCs" on one physical "VPS" machine/box, each having it's own IP address. That's why it's "virtual".
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10-05-2009, 03:46 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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10-05-2009, 12:27 PM #13Uptime Aficionado
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What do you have in mind in terms of management?
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10-05-2009, 02:41 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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You need to have knowledge of Windows system administration, web server, mail server and many other applications. As far as for the 128 MB RAM VPS... you can run a many things there. Virtual Private Servers do not exist to place control panels on them Hosting automation software helps a lot, but are not required.
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10-06-2009, 11:38 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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I mean to say I have worked on Windows based applications.
But the future VPS which I will be going to purchase will be on CentOS of Fedoa (On Linux OS)
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10-07-2009, 12:51 AM #16VPS Like a Boss!
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10-07-2009, 07:01 AM #17Web Hosting Master
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But where can I get tutorials or ebooks for it ?
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10-07-2009, 07:34 AM #18VPS Like a Boss!
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try this http://www.howtoforge.com/
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10-07-2009, 08:52 AM #19Web Hosting Master
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I know that site but its difficult to find it
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10-07-2009, 08:19 PM #20Junior Guru
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I think what you are saying is that you are running VMware, which might be able to emulate a "blank" PC, in which you would install a VPS system and then practice managing a server like that.
If you already have the VPS system operating, I assume all you have to do is install a OS of some sort.
I think you can learn more by doing it, rather than reading. I am sure the VPS software has some sort of documentation with it, and you just have to set each VPS config for amount of ram, bandwidth etc.. that you give to each VPS "customer".
In case it's not clear, when you buy a VPS "account" from someone here for a monthly fee, you just get a VPS that contains one OS. Meaning you don't control the whole dedicated physical machine.
But you do get a control panel that lets you hit "reset" and also pick or change the OS that is used in your VPS "account".
Maybe you should go to a few sites that are selling VPS's and find one that has a free live online demo or maybe a video that shows how a VPS works, that might clear things up.
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10-07-2009, 08:30 PM #21VPS Like a Boss!
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I think the conversation is about learning "linux OS" not learning how to implement VPS or learning virtualization technology....which the cheap 128MB RAM VPS can benefit someone, as the OP is originally asking why some vendor are selling under-powered VPS.
Most VPS provider has some sort of control panel like hyperVM etc bundled in.QuickWeb™ -We Host Servers Like a Boss!
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