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Alright, I need some help. Because I own a reseller I'm interested in learning more about Dedi-Servers, & VPS. What's the difference between Dedi-Servers & VPS's? How much do VPS's cost monthly/yearly approx.? How much do Dedi-Servers monthly/yearly approx.?
 
A VPS is a partitioned server to simulated several smaller "dedicated" servers. You generally have all of the features and access as you would with a dedicated server but without the investment.

A high quality VPS will run you around $50/month for 15gb disk space and 250gb transfer. I recommend ServInt for VPS. A high end dedicated server will run around $300+/month but you can get low end servers for less than $100/month.

If your sites are mission critical I would not recommend a low end server.

Another advantage to ServInt is that the server is fully managed although you can still have root access to "learn as you go".
 
Dedicated Servers: Physical Webserver that allow you to host other website online?
VPS: Virtual Webserver that allow you to host other website online?

Correct? Or no?
 
Chief said:
Dedicated Servers: Physical Webserver that allow you to host other website online?
VPS: Virtual Webserver that allow you to host other website online?

Correct? Or no?
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Is it possible to host gameservers on a VPS?
 
Think of it like this:

Dedicated: The whole machine is your's to use, like your computer at home.

VPS: The vps takes a dedicated server and divides it into partitions, kind of like you do when you install 2 OS's on your home computer. If you buy a VPS package, you are buying one partition on a dedicated server

Shared: Basically, this is much like controlling only one folder of your home computer

Now, to answer your question about game servers....
It depends. Each provider is different, and you would need to ask them before purchasing. I can tell you however, that game servers can take up quite a bit of resources, and a lower cost VPS probably will run out of those resources rather quickly if you run a gameserver on it. Most VPS providers do have higher packages however, that should provide enough resources. Again however, it really comes down to if they will allow it, and what your budget is.
 
Thank you very much Mark, that clears it up for me!

Now, Ive got this offer for a semi-dedicated server. Do you think its good enough as for the price it costs I mean. Because prices are in pounds, Ill be purchasing it in USD currency. Anyways, here it is!

# Disk Space 20 GB
# Bandwidth 300 GB
# Price £39.99 / Month
# Dual Xeon 3.6 GHZ / 4GB RAM
# Only 4 Accounts Hosted on the Server

It also includes:

# 99.9% uptime guarantee
# Domains Allowed - Unlimited
# Subdomains - Unlimited
# FTP Accounts - Unlimited
# MySQL Databases - Unlimited
# Pop3 accounts - Unlimited
# E-mail alias - Unlimited
# Auto responders - Unlimited
# Mailing list - Unlimited
# E-mail - Unlimited
# Mail Forward - Unlimited
# IMAP - Unlimited
# SMTP - Unlimited
# Daily backups & Mirroring
# Site Builder
# CGI
# PHP
# Perl
# Cron
# FrontPage
# Curl
# GD
# Image Magick
# Streaming video and music
# Web Mail
# Catch All
# Spam Assassin
# Blogs
# Portals
# Forums
# Guestbook
# Counter
# Formmail
# Redirect Url
# web based ftp
# PW Protected Directrories
# phpMyAdmin
# Web / Ftp Statistics ( AWStats / WebAlizer )
# Raw log Access
# Referrer log
# Error log
# Analog
# E-Commerce Features
# Shared SSL
# Agora shopping cart
# osCommerce
 
Looks like a good deal at face value but it would be hard to tell without knowing the company offering it.

# Only 4 Accounts Hosted on the Server

I am a little sceptical about this. The server specs that you describe would cost the owner of the server $250+ a month. How can they possibly sell vps space at a loss?
 
A dedicated server and a VPS are basicly the same. Except, with a VPS you are still "shareing" the server. There might be 10 other VPS's on 1 server, and you have control over 1 section. If another persons section goes down due to overload, yours wont be affected because it is a seperate server basicly.
With a dedi server, you get 100% of the resources it has, it is ALL yours.
You can get a cheap VPS from http://rapidvps.com , but you get what you pay for. If you want a reliable VPS or dedi server, check out http://liquidweb.com
Good luck!
 
Blue said:
Looks like a good deal at face value but it would be hard to tell without knowing the company offering it.

# Only 4 Accounts Hosted on the Server

I am a little sceptical about this. The server specs that you describe would cost the owner of the server $250+ a month. How can they possibly sell vps space at a loss?
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They maybe sharing all those resourses in four Accounts... :)
 
Blue here Aster needs to clear that all the price they have give is ok ..as this server is not completely used by one client being a semi-dedicated server it recources would be used by others also, who are also paying for the same server.
 
It still makes no sense.
At 4 accounts per server the most revenue that server can generate is £160.
A Dual Xeon 3.6 GHZ / 4GB RAM would cost more than that just to lease.
 
A VPS is a machine which provides you much less power then reseller account, but its a private machine and you have hold over your accounts, never go for a vps machine, unless you need to install somehting that reseller pack doesnt allows.
Always remember a VPS is a hard bound limit of resources, and you will never use above the alotted resources but in reseller account you may use any level up.
 
That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.
A VPS account is superior to a reseller account in virtually every way.
The only reason a reseller account might be preferable is if you have no desire to do any management or installations at all.
 
No, it doesn't cost more to lease because it's a "semi" all it really is like a reseller but in a cooler name, and with more equipped resources.

He/She isn't giving me the box, it's basically like a reseller :P
 
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