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What is a Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) technology allows multiple, independent Operating Systems to run on a single physical server to share hardware, licenses and management effort with maximum efficiency. Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a dedicated server. Each VPS can be rebooted, has its own root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. Virtual Private Server FAQs

Virtuozzo - Enterprise Quality VPS Technology.

Virtuozzo™ was designed to enable IT organizations to maximize server resources through advanced virtualization technology, and manage the IT infrastructure easily with an advanced set of administration tools. Virtuozzo makes scalability and manageability a reality in distributed platforms computing, in many cases providing an immediate or very fast return on investment.

Virtuozzo design concepts:

• Dynamic Real-Time Partitioning
• Resource Management
• Virtualization
• Efficient Mass Management

Dynamic Partitioning

Virtuozzo™ partitioning creates multiple isolated partitions or Virtual Private Servers (VPSs) on a single physical server to share hardware, licenses, and management effort with maximum efficiency. Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server. A VPS can be rebooted independently and has its own root or administrator access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files (or registry). Virtuozzo partitions are dynamic, can be created or changed in real-time, can scale up to the entire physical server and introduce no measurable performance degradation.

Powerful Resource Management

Virtuozzo resource management allows uncooperative, independently used VPSs to run on the same physical server without interference. Virtuozzo includes sophisticated resource management for CPU, memory, network I/O, disk space and over 20 other system resources. Resources can be controlled with simple minimums (guarantees), maximums (limits), shares or more sophisticated allocations that allow for specified overages. Virtuozzo assigns, monitors, accounts and controls resource levels in real-time and alerts administrators according to pre-defined criteria. Virtuozzo resource management allows active VPSs to use unclaimed resources, which are immediately released as other VPSs require resources.

Virtualization

Virtuozzo virtualization provides separation of the VPSs from the physical server hardware, allowing VPSs and any corresponding application(s) to be migrated from one physical server to another transparently with near-zero downtime. The resource management and monitoring tools provide administrators with the flexibility to better utilize resources across multiple physical servers, and reduce or nearly eliminate planned, unplanned or resource related outages. An additional benefit of the virtualization technology is that the underlying OS is always running; therefore, VPSs are always accessible and recoverable through self-management Virtuozzo Power Panel.

Efficient Mass Management

Virtuozzo was designed to provide efficient mass management. The server administrator can efficiently manage, script and monitor 100s of VPSs that appear as a collection of applications and processes on a single server. Templates enable easy deployment and updates of OSs and applications across hundreds of VPSs at once. Multiple servers and 1000s of VPSs can be managed centrally with the Virtuozzo Management Console which provides wizards, supports global operations and automates many common tasks. VPS owners can use the browser-based Power Panel to start/stop, backup/restore, repair and remotely reinstall the VPS without IT support.