VDS technology at COMBELL

VDS web hosting		VIRTUAL web hosting
	VDS divides the hard disk space, resources and network space. That means, each VDS has his own operating system. When a VDS on a certain server crashes (which hardly ever happens), no other account on that server will be influenced by this.	In a normal Shared hosting environment, every account shares the same server resources. If one account uses up all resources, all other server accounts will suffer from it. In other words: if one site crashes, all the other sites on that server go down as well.

Table of comparison

Personal webserver
Independent file structure
Administrative privileges
Personal mail server
Personal httpd.conf file
Advanced security
Personal PHP ini file
Personal database server

What does 'normal' Virtual Hosting stand for?

In order to understand the 'VDS Technology'-term, you first need to know which technology is being used by the majority of our competitors. Our competitors opt for 'Virtual Hosting' Technology. That means that different websites are hosted at one and the same server, which uses the same server software for all websites. Websites hosted with 'Virtual Hosting' technology are using the same webserver, the same mail server and the same root directory.

This does not exactly improve your website's security or performance. Furthermore, 'Virtual Hosting' does not allow the user to make any personal advanced configuration changes in PHP, Apache or MySQL.

What is VDS technology at COMBELL Linux hosting ?

Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) provides you with your own UNIX/Linux environment. With 'VDS hosting', each website can function independently, separated from all other websites on the same server. Virtual Dedicated Servers have their own server software on the server, which operates from a separate root, guaranteeing autonomy for each website.

A VDS server problem will only affect one particular VDS server, and not the other VDS servers which are active on the same physical server. With a 'Virtual Hosting' server the same problem would also affect all the other sites located on the same server.

With VDS technology, each user has their own control panel, which they can also use to change their server configuration settings, such as PHP configuration changes in php.ini, Apache webserver settings in httpd.conf and MySQL configuration. In other words: you can to the fullest extent possible fully manage your hosting package yourself as if it were your very own personal physical server!

VDS and security

Security is a priority at COMBELL. With our VDS system, security has even improved. Our VDS system secures on different levels. We have internal and external protection against hackers or operational failures. Our systems fully supports the SSH-2 protocol, which is the safest and most advanced shell software available. No other hosting platform offers more security than the COMBELL VDS system.