Beginner level articles on virtual private servers
What is a VPS?
Virtual private servers (VPS) are a server-based computing environment that you can run on your own hardware. This has many advantages over shared hosting, including increased security and privacy. In...
Written by Erica Miller
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What is a virtual machine?
Virtual machines are an emulation of a computer system. A virtual machine is created using virtualization software and runs on the host computer. The OS on a VM sees all the resources allocated to it...
Written by Walter Boatwright
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What does virtualization mean?
Virtualization is a software technique that allows multiple operating systems (OSes) to be run on one computer system at the same time, with all of them using a portion of the host system's resources....