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What is Virtual Dedicated Server?

Virtual dedicated servers are the same as virtual private servers. A dedicated server offers the maximum of everything-resources, security, privacy, reliability, flexibility, availability, and performance. However, it is expensive since it is built for use by one single entity.
Small and growing businesses that require more stability and resources than what is offered in shared hosting have financial restraints as they cannot afford the high cost dedicated servers. With the virtualization technology, it has now become possible to offer the VDS (virtual dedicated servers) or VPS.

The users get the same features of the dedicated server but without the high costs. A physical server is partitioned into several smaller servers, each one with its own operating system for use by a single client. Each VDS is allocated dedicated resources. Since the server is occupied by many websites, the costs are split among them. This makes a VDS cost lesser than a dedicated server.

The features you get with a virtual dedicated server includes

Complete control: Linux users can configure and customize the server using SSH while the Windows users can access via the Remote desktop protocol. You can install any applications useful to your business.

Privacy: Your website is housed in separate container like environments where only people authorized by you are allowed.

Reliability: Your website is not affected by the other websites housing on the server. It will neither slow down or crash if a neighbor pulls more resources.

Scalable: Unlike in shared hosting, you can draw more resources to meet any sudden spurt in traffic without disturbing the performance of other websites.