What is Virtual Dedicated Server?
Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) hosting is an exciting new technology that bridges the gap between traditional shared hosting and dedicated hosting by providing a reliable hosting environment that is cost-effective altogether. A VDS offers all the security and reliability of a dedicated server, but in a shared environment. Just like a dedicated server, each VDS environment is sandboxed for security and receives guaranteed portions of system resources (CPU, disk etc.) and each runs its own copies of operating system, web server, mail server, ftp, database and all other applications. A crashed application (Apache, Sendmail, MySQL etc.) in a VDS has no effect on other VDS environments that are on the same physical server.