VPS

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What does VPS mean?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) is running multiple Virtual Servers within one physical server.. VPS hosting provides the ultimate middle-ground between standard shared hosting and full dedicated server hosting.

What is a Virtual Private Server?

Each VPS gets its own portion of resources, which are usually guaranteed to be available to that particular VPS. For instance, the host server may have 8GB of ram, and 256mb (for instance) could be guaranteed to be available to a VPS. That would mean that regardless of what other VPS's on the same server use, that amount of RAM will be available to the VPS.

Also very important: each VPS runs completely independent of each other. Each VPS has its own file system so a VPS can't see any of the data of another VPS. As a VPS runs its own copy of its operating system, customers have superuser-level access to the machine, and can install almost any software that runs on the OS. Basically by the end user it can be treated as a dedicated server. The VPS security model makes it ideal for secure credit card processing in e-commerce applications.

Is it possible to run anything on a VPS that would run on a dedicated server?

As long as it doesn't require kernel modifications, yes. Jumba also does not allow background daemons such as IRC bots, eggdrop, BitchX, XiRCON, warez sites, which are not tolerated on Jumba servers.