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Is VPS hosting too expensive?

How much are you paying for vps hosting? Is it affordable?

For instance, may web hosts offer Virtuozzo VPS's range from £30-40 per month price. This does not compare well with some of the dedicated server deals which seem to get cheaper everyday. Prices start for a "real" server at around £29 per month. So why rent a virtual private server when you can have a real server for much less?

Quite simply people are not comparing "like with like." It's assumed that the next best "step up" from a shared hosting account is a dedicated server. I don't always agree with this and it can be a costly mistake, simply choosing the cheapest dedicated server deal.

A professional hosting company would not stay in business very long if it hosted all it's shared hosting accounts on cheap £29 per month dedicated servers. Hosting servers can require a significant capital investment on the part of the host. To cope with the load its very likely that even the most basic specification hosting server will have dual processors, possibly up to 4-8 GB of RAM. A hosting server is unlikely to rely on a single IDE hard drive. In the world of web hosting, RAID is the order of the day. RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Discs."

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