Virtual Server or VPS? - Three Key Differences

As the new Cloud concept is gaining ground, more and more people and companies are wondering what is the difference between a virtual server and a VPS server. Although at first glance both technologies may seem similar, at the operating and result level, the difference between the two is significant. What distinguishes then a virtual server and a VPS server? Next, we explain it to you.

The Virtual server                                        

It is a highly scalable Virtual server that abstracts from the physical server. This is backed by a redundant infrastructure, specially prepared for this purpose, in which a set of physical servers are distributed to execute the different virtual instances. In recent years, cloud computing is gaining more and more relevance due to the advantages offered, especially at the business level, its greater flexibility, and tolerance to hardware failures.

Three key differences between Cloud and VPS:

The Virtual server is tolerant to hardware failures. In the event that a physical server fails, the system will simply search for the next node to connect to and keep any service running without risk of interruption times. For business use, this is a fundamental advantage.

The Cheap virtual server offers greater scalability and flexibility by allowing immediate modification of assigned resources. We can increase or decrease the number of vCores, Ram and disk capacity without the need to change the server or the configuration of our services. On a physical server, this is not possible since we will never be able to overcome the machine's own resources. Additionally, in SW Hosting this process is done completely automatically when the user requests it from his control panel.

The Virtual server guarantees the actual availability of the contracted resources. In the case of VPS, server performance may vary depending on the intensity of use of other users with whom the machine is shared. Therefore, it may be the case to pay for a VPS Service whose benefits we do not enjoy 100%. On a VPS server, it is impossible to guarantee the use of resources, on a Virtual server itself.

The Virtual Private, therefore, offer greater advantages for those users who are looking for a reliable, efficient service that adapts flexibly to the needs of each moment. For a company whose product and reputation depend on the operation of its servers, Cloud is the technology that offers the maximum benefits.

Estnoc Offers Dedicated Hosting Services in Romania

Estnoc offers cloud hosting, website hosting and other web solutions that enable businesses, nonprofits or government organizations with flexible, highly scalable low-cost hosting for their websites or web applications.

Let your website grow and shrink with demand.

Website traffic may still change. Night-time nighttime restraint can be replaced by a managed social networking campaign that raises domain traffic by 200-500%, so Estnoc offers Elastic Cloud computing infrastructure that can be expanded or reduced system resources to suit your website needs.

For what kind of hosting to decide?

If you are interested in setting up a new web domain, you will need to find a hosting space for the new domain website (storage space where your files will be physically stored and available through a fast backbone connection). Most web hosting provider’s offer specialized packages according to system requirements or storage usage. But that does not mean that you need to limit yourself to selecting one with several packages offered.

In the morning of a scalable web host, it is possible to allocate as many system resources for your site and web application as it requires at any given time or throughout the period (amount of storage, memory, CPU performance, database size, number of email accounts, and many factors that are vital for the application or site to run properly.)

What are the possibilities of the provided services?

Before you decide on a particular type of web host, you need to know what type of hosting best suits your needs.

·         Shared servers (global webhosting) are very affordable, but they can have a significant impact on the performance of the entire site with a lack of system resources under heavy load.

·         Although Dedicated Hosting Services in Romania will eliminate performance bottlenecks by allocating all of the server's system resources to your domain only, this exclusivity is a redeemed financial cost that is significantly higher for this type of hosting.

·         Virtual Servers (VPS) fall somewhere between shared servers and dedicated servers; the advantage is hosting multiple domains on one virtual server and, if necessary, simple boosting by allocating more system resources.

Before you decide to purchase any type of hosting service, in addition to carefully examining all the possibilities to host your web project, we recommend that you do not underestimate 24/7 customer service, you will appreciate it if at 3am there is a problem with someone's problem effectively.

Linux vs. Windows Servers

Every webhosting involves more than just selecting the type of server; you also have to opt for the operating system and in this case the selection is even more important, depending on the requirements of the web application or web project. Linux-based servers are generally more popular and are certainly very interesting in terms of financial investments.

This is the way to go when hosted applications do not require the Microsoft Windows operating system, for example. For example, there was a web application or a web page written in .NET from Microsoft, you will certainly need some money to buy a Microsoft server operating system license.

Free webhosting for nonprofit organizations

Are you a non-profit organization? Do you need a web space for your open source project or community site? We offer hosting services for non-profit organizations and open projects for free. In addition, we will advise you on how to get started and help you implement and install the entire project.

ESTNOC, Cloud Computing in Switzerland with Open Source

Cloud Computing in Switzerland, or Cloud Computing, is a term used to refer to a computational paradigm based on contracts that allow the user to "rent" the ability to compile accessible via the Internet. There were already several companies offering these services, and there were several privative software systems to deploy and maintain a computational cloud, but so far there were not many open-source and standard-based systems for this, and those that were there were few and they were scattered.

ESTNOC is an open-source infrastructure that serves to implement a cloud computing system using clusters of computers and/or farms of workstations.

Currently, ESTNOC is compatible with the level of interfaces with the well-known EC2 service of Amazon.com (which could be said to be the most successful commercial cloud computing service), but the infrastructure is designed to be able to be modified and extended in a manner compatible with Multiple interfaces in the client part. In addition, being built using commonly available tools in Linux and basic web service technologies, it is very easy to install and maintain.

Overall, the ESTNOC project aims to promote community research and the development of technologies for the implementation of cloud services, resource localization strategies, mechanisms and policies for service contracts, and usage models.


 The current ESTNOC version is 1.5.2, which includes the following features:

· Interface level compatibility with EC2 and S3 (for both web services and Query / REST interfaces)

· Simple deployment and installation

Compatibility with most Linux distributions (binary and code packages)

· Secure internal communication using SOAP with WS-security
· Cloud management tools for system management and user accounts.
· Ability to configure multiple clusters, each with private internal network addresses, within a single cloud.

More information
For any clarification or additional information about this call in the following link or you can go to the following email address sales@estnoc.ee or by calling +37 25 850 1736.