Cons of VPS Web Hosting.

By Parth Patel


Virtual Private Server, as the name suggests, the hosting services are private to the client virtually, means not physically. Because of this dedicated services and root level access, VPS is costlier than the shared hosting where all the resources are shared except the storage.

In VPS hosting, the client is solely responsible for deployment, maintenance and breakdown of software applications used by the client, who required profound professionals for this, however this is not the case with the managed VPS hosting, where all these services are provided by the web hosting company and of course it increases the cost.

Though virtually, the client of VPS hosting enjoys the virtually exclusive resources, the hosting resources like CPU, RAM, Disk I/O are still shared among many other clients using the same physical server. However different levels of virtualization provide varied sharing of resources.

Since the VPS hosting is managed by the professionals at the client end, there needs to dedicated professionals to manage, otherwise there would be more chances of malware and there would be mere chances of hacking their web data. More care and concern are to be shown to protect and look after the data. The client has to imply the methods of protecting to safeguard website from virus, malware and spyware and many more threats from the internet, failing to which the data would be left open to all kinds of threats including hackers. So, instead it is better to leave it to the web hosting professionals to manage VPS hosting in order to safeguard the data.

Client of VPS hosting expects the whole access to the core and some of the web hosting companies do not provide this complete root or core level access to the client. This again is limitation to the expectations of the core access.

Client using the VPS hosting, needs to allocate more dedicated time, as the whole server-side administration is maintained by the client and the respective IT team rather than leaving them to the web hosting company. There must be dedicated expert 24/7 to run and monitor the web applications required to run their websites.

If the client has back up of professionals who have good knowledge and experience and who can dedicated for 24/7 then is the best choice of VPS hosting, otherwise is very challenging to maintain VPS.




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