When you run a website on a VPS, making any sort of improvements are helpful. This holds true for large servers as well. So another area you can improve is your web server. It’s really not that hard to tweak, if you know what to look for.
I’m running this website, and others, on a VPS hosted at VPSLink. For those who don’t know, a VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a “fake” server that is partitioned off of a real server. For example, say you have this big beefy box with 16GB of RAM, over 1 Terabyte of disk space, Dual Processors with Dual Cores. Sounds pretty nice. Well you could if you wanted to, segment the server into small servers by creating these smaller servers virtually. Through the use of software like OpenVZ or XEN you can do exactly this. You can take a beefy server and make multiple servers out of it. It’s different from shared hosting where you share resources with other sites on a server. With a VPS, you get a dedicated portion of the resources, or a slice of the box. It works out great if you want to have a server with it’s own resources to get around the issues of shared hosting, but not spend the full cost of full server like with a dedicated server. So that’s a VPS, and back to my problem.
Looks like my hosting company is having a glitch today. I use vpslink for this site, and a few others. VPSLink has been very good overall. I hope the glitch is over.
You can view a link to an uptime monitor provided by WebHostingStuff.com about them.
