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« on: October 27, 2006, 07:08:38 AM » |
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As a shared customer, I was wondering what people who have made the transition think.
Also from someone "in the know" what is the biggest difference I would notice. I did sort of monkey around with the plesk thing in beta, and I have read the little intro thing on the main page but some of the things aren’t really that clear
Will I lose spam and anti virus protection? What is a plesk power pack? Is there anything I should look into before I switch.
Plus a lot of other questions, I have learned my impulses just to jump in and muck around often cause more problems than they solve.
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Mitch
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2006, 07:13:46 AM » |
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Well a VPS in a lot of ways acts as a stepping stone between a regular hosting account and a dedicated hosting account. As far as Lunarpages specifics, I'm not sure but here is an article that should give you a better general understanding and idea. |
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tarheit
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2006, 09:23:04 AM » |
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The biggest functional difference I noticed was that you got Plesk instead of cpanel. I was pretty familiar with cpanel but had not used Plesk before so it too a bit to look though all of it and figure out where things are. (And the beta testing account didnt even have a domain setup at all so I had to figure out it's structure before I could do anything. ), but overall I think it's a bit more powerful than cpanel. Then there is the obvious... You get so much memory and cpu time so you never have to worry about using to many resources (though things can be really slow if you push your own limits), but it looks like you can monitor it from plesk. I don't have a need for VPS right now, but should I ever outgrow my basic account I wouldn't hesitate to move to VPS. (Of course by then I should be making enough money to justify it  ) -Tim |
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bryantrv
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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2006, 09:33:20 AM » |
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Don't you get root access on the VPS? This would make it much easier to install any non standard applications you might need.
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Lupine1647
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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2006, 04:26:36 PM » |
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Hello:
A VPS is like having your own dedicated server except you really don't own the entire server, you are sharing it with other people. If you know what parallels or VM Ware is for example, then it's just like that for example.
You have root/SSH access to your server so you can install any applications you may need on it.
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jdog
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« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2006, 08:00:14 PM » |
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how many people on each server in vps?
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Danielle
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« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2006, 10:22:46 PM » |
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Hi jdog,
There are 24-25 people on each vps server.
Also, to clarify something noted above that isn't the case, you can actually select cPanel rather than Plesk for the VPS as an option. The cost for cPanel rather than Plesk would be $10.00 to install it and a $35.00 monthly charge.
Have a Blessed Weekend
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jdog
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« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2006, 11:54:31 PM » |
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Someone said before that each person gets allotted 512 mb of ram, the servers would have to have a hell of a lot of ram for this to happen, or isn't this the case?
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Lupine1647
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« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2006, 03:27:55 PM » |
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jdog,
I'm not sure how much RAM is in each server that handles the VPS accounts, however you can get servers that have 16 and 32 GB of RAM in them.
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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2006, 03:40:51 PM » |
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This thread has some answers.
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reasonpolice
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2006, 02:58:45 AM » |
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You get so much memory and cpu time so you never have to worry about using to many resources (though things can be really slow if you push your own limits). Orly? I'm running gallery2 with another host, but they are turning it off, citing resource use. How does Lunar quantify and restrict "CPU minutes" on its plans? A link to instructions for intalling gallery2 on their servers would be cool too. Thanks *edited by Mitch, removing another host's name.  |
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Lupine1647
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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2006, 01:11:01 PM » |
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reasonpolice,
It shouldn't be an issue on our VPS and dedicated solutions if that is what you are inquiring about (from the sound of it, you probably aren't but what to make sure anyways). However, several of our customers have ran Gallery2 on shared accounts without any issues.
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reasonpolice
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2006, 07:53:15 AM » |
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What I'd like to avoid is moving the gallery to another host only to be told three days later that Gallery is using too many CPU minutes.
With a dedicated server I suppose CPU time is unlimited, but how is it restricted with VPS? Is it true that if the gallery gets busy only the performance of my account will slow down? Just wondering how you quantify and control CPU use, on VPS and shared.
Thanks!
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Mitch
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« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2006, 08:04:57 AM » |
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In comparison with the regular hosting plans (basic and business) you would have nothing to worry about as far as CPU cycles go. Since you would be on a more dedicated machine (of course, a little less than a dedicated account) I wouldn't see you running into any issues. As Ryan said though, we do have people using Gallery2 on the shared servers with no problems.
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