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What are Hosted Virtual Private Servers?
If a hosted shared service is akin to an open plan dormitory a VPS or virtual private server is like a
Condominium. In a VPS you still share the server with a number of other customers but importantly
each customer has their own allotted and protected space – just like the Condo with its apartments
with fixed walls and a door for privacy and security. In the condo scenario if the neighbours start using
up their space they cannot break through and start using up your space. This is the principle on which
VPS is based. The way it works is that the service provider can take a large powerful server and then
slice it up logically into equal segments, which are assigned per customer. Huge advances in server
virtualization technology over the last two decades has enabled a physical server to be sliced into
many virtual servers each with their own segregated share of the CPU, Memory and Storage.