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> "I am not on a shared host, I am hosted on a VPS" Hate to break it to you, but your virtual private server (VPS) is likely sharing a bare-metal server with o

> "I am not on a shared host, I am hosted on a VPS" Hate to break it to you, but your virtual private server (VPS) is likely sharing a bare-metal server with other VPS. ;-) Also, you can look into content delivery networks (aka CDN), which will most likely deliver this page faster to clients than your VPS especially when you consider your VPS is in Dallas and CDN's have nodes located around the world.

devnull42 10y ago
Absolutely. Yeah that is kind of silly.
ajosh 10y ago
I think he is contrasting VPS service to shared hosting services like Go Daddy or one of the many cPanel providers. Unless a VPS is using OpenVZ, the box isn't over provisioned. A cPanel host is usually very over provisioned. 500 customers per server wss not uncommon 10 years ago.
- neoCrimeLabs 10y ago
  With a Linux host, you can oversubscribe KVM guests, and I'm starting to see it more frequently. Still haven't seen as bad as shared hosts, however. Kernel Same-Page Merging allows you to de-dup common pages across virtual hosts (such as kernel) for example. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KSM http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KSM
rospaya 10y ago
> Hate to break it to you, but your virtual private server (VPS) is likely sharing a bare-metal server with other VPS. ;-) Likely? Isn't that the point of a VPS?
- neoCrimeLabs 10y ago
  You can reserve entire machines, even using VPS. Heck, you can even luck out and be the first VPS on a newly provision host. Chances of either, slim. Still I try not to assume when I don't have the data.
  - paulddraper 10y ago
    Sure you might but be sharing, but the point is that you don't generally have to care. It's all virtualized and cloudy.
    - wingless 10y ago
      VPS performances wildly vary from provider to provider though.
- dragontamer 10y ago
  Yeah. But its also the point of shared hosting, which the site hates on. A good shared host (ex: HawkHost's semi-dedicated) will run circles around a Lowendbox VPS.
oakwhiz 10y ago
>Hate to break it to you, but I think the pedantry is unnecessary here. "Shared hosting" colloquially refers to multiple websites sharing a single web server, database, and PHP process. Everything is set up for you by the provider, you simply supply the files. What "shared hosting" does NOT usually refer to are containers, virtual machines, bare-metal, IaaS deployment environments, or anything like that.

devnull42 10y ago

Absolutely. Yeah that is kind of silly.

ajosh 10y ago

I think he is contrasting VPS service to shared hosting services like Go Daddy or one of the many cPanel providers. Unless a VPS is using OpenVZ, the box isn't over provisioned. A cPanel host is usually very over provisioned. 500 customers per server wss not uncommon 10 years ago.

neoCrimeLabs 10y ago
With a Linux host, you can oversubscribe KVM guests, and I'm starting to see it more frequently. Still haven't seen as bad as shared hosts, however. Kernel Same-Page Merging allows you to de-dup common pages across virtual hosts (such as kernel) for example. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KSM http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KSM

rospaya 10y ago

> Hate to break it to you, but your virtual private server (VPS) is likely sharing a bare-metal server with other VPS. ;-) Likely? Isn't that the point of a VPS?

neoCrimeLabs 10y ago
You can reserve entire machines, even using VPS. Heck, you can even luck out and be the first VPS on a newly provision host. Chances of either, slim. Still I try not to assume when I don't have the data.
- paulddraper 10y ago
  Sure you might but be sharing, but the point is that you don't generally have to care. It's all virtualized and cloudy.
  - wingless 10y ago
    VPS performances wildly vary from provider to provider though.
dragontamer 10y ago
Yeah. But its also the point of shared hosting, which the site hates on. A good shared host (ex: HawkHost's semi-dedicated) will run circles around a Lowendbox VPS.

oakwhiz 10y ago

>Hate to break it to you, but I think the pedantry is unnecessary here. "Shared hosting" colloquially refers to multiple websites sharing a single web server, database, and PHP process. Everything is set up for you by the provider, you simply supply the files. What "shared hosting" does NOT usually refer to are containers, virtual machines, bare-metal, IaaS deployment environments, or anything like that.