What is the difference between a dedicated server and a VPS?
In short, a dedicated server is an actual machine that get's dedicated to you, whereas a virtual private server is a part of a server that is allocated to act like a dedicated server (virtually). That means that a lot of people can have their own environemt on a shared platfom.
For a more technical explanation, as wells a some pro's and con's, I'll recommend reading this:
http://www.differencebetween.net/object/...ed-server/
so the vps is like a cloud server almost or am i understanding wrong?
(10-12-2010, 09:15 AM)leonhitchens Wrote: [ -> ]so the vps is like a cloud server almost or am i understanding wrong?
What? I've never heard there's a thing called "Cloud server".
Well, in case you don't understand, a VPS is basically a virtual machine running on a physical server with some sort of virtualization technology (most commonly,
Xen or
OpenVZ). The physical server could run a lot of such virtual servers all at once. Each virtual machine act like a physical server (that's why it's called "virtual private server"), and the resources of the physical server is separated between the virtual servers running on it. Here's a graph coming from Wikipedia that shows how Xen works:
![[Image: XEN-schema.png]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/XEN-schema.png)
ho, the truth is that not much
If I feel as if that diagram is hard to understand if you don't know anything about computers. Since it's my profession and job, I'm familiar with it.
You were right though Richard.
A dedicated server means EVERY resource on that server is dedicated to your tasks that you perform. So that means you get 12GB of RAM - if that's what you have installed.
A VPS is a virtual server - which is a dedicated server split into 1 or more virtual environments, then you get allocated resources like 2GB of RAM, leaving the dedicated server 10GB of RAM left.