Comments on: How To Choose A Vps Hosting http://www.thisjobsforyou.com/blog/554/how-to-choose-a-vps-hosting/ Your Internet Home Business Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: velofille http://www.thisjobsforyou.com/blog/554/how-to-choose-a-vps-hosting/comment-page-1/#comment-184 velofille Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:58:01 +0000 http://www.thisjobsforyou.com/blog/554/how-to-choose-a-vps-hosting/#comment-184 Heya I would like to correct a couple of things, Control Panel on the VPS isnt what you should choose a VPS based on. Depending on what you need is what Control Panel you can use. Most people can get away with a Free one like Virtualmin GPL or pay for the fancy version of VirtualMin which is still half the price of Plesk. WHM/Cpanel though it may seem nice isn't very useful at all if you are porting to another hosting provider, you may find yourself tied into one VPS because of it. You should really send them an email asking some basic questions about their hosting, even if its things you know, just to test their response time to enquiries, and helpfulness. You can tell a log by their reply, if they are helpful and will help you out when things go pear shaped, or if they are going to take 3 days to get back to you when your VPS is down. Also check out their rates for sysadmin work in case you ever need it, Some charge as much as $150 per hour, others as little as $40. The amount of Disk, RAM, and bandwidth is variable and entirely related to what you actually need. Most people have hundreds of smaller sites which dont need a huge amount of resources, so can get away with less disk and bandwidth and RAM, whilst others run larger CMS which are higher volume and so need more. Another handy thing to check, do they have access for you to if for some reason networking is down. A good provider will give you access to a console on the host in some form, so if the VPS is not responsive you can view error messages, or login and debug WHY its down. Check what backups they have and do, and what you need to do yourself. Do they provide you with backup space somewhere? or do you need to organize something and pay? Whilst your plan may be good for you now, how much is it going to cost you to upgrade? Great article though, well written, with some excellent points. Sorry If i went on, i work at a VPS company as a SysAdmin and we see some horror stories from various other companies people have been with :) Liz (SysAdmin at Rimuhosting.com VPS company - post may contain bias! :) ) ps. You need to upgrade your wordpress install, its out of date! Heya

I would like to correct a couple of things, Control Panel on the VPS isnt what you should choose a VPS based on. Depending on what you need is what Control Panel you can use. Most people can get away with a Free one like Virtualmin GPL or pay for the fancy version of VirtualMin which is still half the price of Plesk.
WHM/Cpanel though it may seem nice isn’t very useful at all if you are porting to another hosting provider, you may find yourself tied into one VPS because of it.
You should really send them an email asking some basic questions about their hosting, even if its things you know, just to test their response time to enquiries, and helpfulness. You can tell a log by their reply, if they are helpful and will help you out when things go pear shaped, or if they are going to take 3 days to get back to you when your VPS is down.
Also check out their rates for sysadmin work in case you ever need it, Some charge as much as $150 per hour, others as little as $40.

The amount of Disk, RAM, and bandwidth is variable and entirely related to what you actually need. Most people have hundreds of smaller sites which dont need a huge amount of resources, so can get away with less disk and bandwidth and RAM, whilst others run larger CMS which are higher volume and so need more.

Another handy thing to check, do they have access for you to if for some reason networking is down. A good provider will give you access to a console on the host in some form, so if the VPS is not responsive you can view error messages, or login and debug WHY its down.

Check what backups they have and do, and what you need to do yourself. Do they provide you with backup space somewhere? or do you need to organize something and pay?

Whilst your plan may be good for you now, how much is it going to cost you to upgrade?

Great article though, well written, with some excellent points. Sorry If i went on, i work at a VPS company as a SysAdmin and we see some horror stories from various other companies people have been with :)

Liz
(SysAdmin at Rimuhosting.com VPS company – post may contain bias! :) )

ps. You need to upgrade your wordpress install, its out of date!

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