Virtual servers

[Webguy]

What are the main benefits of a virtual server and how can it help me as a website owner?  I read some information about it but just can't seem to wrap my head around it.

[FrankSpencer]

The point is that you get all the benefits of a dedicated server as far as flexibility and control are concerned, but without the price. Saves you money whilst you still win.

[dave]

You actually get a lot more flexibility in a virtualized environment than you get on a dedicated server because it removes the hardware ties that a traditional dedicated server has.

You can zip up a virtual server and restore it to another virtual server and click run, you cannot do that with a dedicated server because of the hardware dependency.

You can also increase resources on a virtual server on the fly, no need to take a server down to increase ram / disk space.

There are lots of reason to virtualize an infrastructure.

[Webguy]

What I like is that based on what I've read on this site is that it's like I'm the server admin.  I can do just about anything I want since it's my own little server and not worry about messing up someone else's site.

[linker]

You can also increase resources on a virtual server on the fly, no need to take a server down to increase ram / disk space.

How do you actually do that? You made me really curious about this. Are you going to use other programs to do this or can cPanel do it?

[ResidentGeek]

Hi Linker,   There are programs that come with a lot of different virtualization tools that wil allow you to do management tasks such as adjusting disk space, ram or whatever very easily.  Here is a link that should help you understand this a little better - http://wiki.openvz.org/Category:Resource_management

Hope this helps.