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VPS is the acronym for `Virtual Private Server`. Hosting companies provide customers the ability to rent computing resources, which are used to create and run virtual machines that are controlled by the customer, but run on the hosting company's hardware. Such a VM is known as a VPS.

VPS is the acronym for Virtual Private Server. Hosting companies provide customers the ability to rent computing resources, which are used to create and run virtual machines that are controlled by the customer, but run on the hosting company's hardware. Such a VM is known as a VPS.

Typically, companies that rent VPSes have large VM "farms" where many customers and clients will run VMs that share the same physical host(s), but are otherwise completely independent from one another. These physical host servers are divided up to create many virtual servers, using one of the many virtualization hypervisors on the market. Each VPS can run its own full-fledged operating system and can be independently operated and rebooted.

In the world of commercial web hosting, VPSes exists between shared and dedicated hosting.

The concept of VPS may also be known by the terms "Virtual Server" and "Virtual Dedicated Server."

Wikipedia has a page on Virtual Private Servers that goes more in depth into the concept of virtualization and some of the distinctions between different types of VPS offerings.

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Is kloxo secure?

I have installed kloxo/lxadmin in my VPS, I'm wondering is kloxo, lxadmin secure or will it get my vps hacked?
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VPS hang when one Virtual CPU usage is 100%

We are using Xen Center to manage all of our cPanel VPS servers. The hardware has two CPUs(Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410@2.33GHz) and 32GB memory. Each hardware has 4 cPanel VPS and each VPS has 8GB memory and 4 Virtual CPUS. Every one or two months,…
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Updating packages on a CentOS 5.5 VPS

I have been running a VPS for several weeks now and yum has informed me that 67 package updates are available. I'm very new to Linux and server administration in general. I have taken time to configure Apache, PHP and a few other necessary programs…
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Free / Open Source Control Panels for hosting managment

i have bought an vps connect with root access and i need to use cpanel is there is any good open source controlpanel like cpanel.....
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How to find out how much disk space I'm using on a VPS?

I've moved from shared hosting to a VPS and see in my HyperVM that 11 GB out of my allotted 20 GB of disk space is being used. According to how big this files are on Windows before I upload, all of my files are taking up less than 100 MB of…
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Assign IPV6 to external vps/clients

I have about 4 billion IPV6 ips, i'd like to assign some to one of my external vpses not in the same D.C, the ipv6 ips are on a VPS too running ubuntu 10.04 How can i do this? E.G assign 10 ipv6 ips on my VPS to another External VPS, so that…
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Centos 5 VPS: sshd freezes

I have a Centos 5 VPS and it's giving me some problems when trying to connect to ssh. This is what happens: I ssh into it and do some work. Nmap detects port 22 as open. I disconnect. Sometimes it lets me connect back but usually I can't ssh back…
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Advantages of moving to VPS from shared hosting?

I have several websites on a shared hosting, and I wonder if moving to a VPS will help in their page loading time performance. (I want this to be a community wiki on the advantages of moving, but it doesn't allow me for some reason) Thanks.
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Firewall Rules For OpenVZ VPS?

I'm in the process of setting up a VPS server that I eventually plan to use for light web and email server operations. I'd like it to be reasonably secure but I'm not all that familiar with iptables. Is there an easier way to configure the…
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How to move VPS to another hosting provider?

I was looking for a way to move one VPS server(all OS configs, application structure etc) to another VPS hosting provider. I mean completely. Without manual reconfiguration and reinstalling all the applications after moving. Is it possible? I…
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What VPS should I use for my soon-to-launch Rails app?

I'm about to launch my first Rails app, but I haven't yet selected who I'm going to use for my VPS. I'm aware of Linode, Slicehost, and pgrmr as options. Any specific pros and cons about each? What other options should I be aware of?
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VPS 512 MB RAM with WordPressMU comes to consumes lots of memory

I have googled for days and gathered all optimization suggestions and tried. My sites are not getting any high hits. May be like 100 hits per day [all my sites combined]. Here are my specs I have 512 MB RAM VPS with burstable 1024 MB. Centos 5…
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Migrate data from one server to another using rsync

I'm moving from one VPS to another, and I figured that the simplest way to transfer data would be rsync. However, the data is owned by a user, www-data, which doesn't have ssh privileges, and I'd like it to be owned by the same (named) user on the…
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Updating Network Solutions Virtual Private Server

Just got a VPS from Network Solutions, it's got Red Hat 4, PHP 5.16, Java 1.4, no Yum and a whole bunch of packages I'd expect to have from a fresh install. Anyway, obviously I sound like a spoiled Ubunutoligist, but do I seriously have to manually…
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cannot create database as root in phpmyadmin

I just got my VPS, I login to phpmyadmin as root but I cannot create a database, I can't even see a link for this. I also want to change other user's permissions but I cannot find out how to.
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