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Server Virtualization is a technology used to partitioned a physical dedicated server into small mini-dedicated servers and creates a virtual environment. The machines running in a virtual environment are also known as Virtual Private Servers.

Using the server vitualization technology, infrastructure can be strengthen, optimze utilization, total cost can be reduced and improves the longtivity of a business.

With server virtualization technology, in the virtual environment multiple operating systems and softwares can be used on a single processor based platform. The server resources can be allocated to meet specific business and web application requirements. Today, server virtualization softwares supports a variety of features, which makes the server management easier. It helps in improving security, robustness and ability of server. It also boosts server performance and uptime.

There are a plenty of server virtualization softwares available on the market. Some of them are quite affordable and free and some are bit expensive. In order to decide which server virtualization software meets your requirements, you need to know the types of server virtualization softwares.

Free Virtualization Softwares:

Virtualbox: Its an free open source, easy to use and excellent for testing environments.

KVM: This a linux based virtualization technology has a built-in kernel module, which is supported by most of the Linux distributions.

Xen: It is a hypervisor virtualization software application, which can be used to run long term virtual environment.

OpenVZ: It is also a software virtualization technology, free and open source a competitor of Virtuozzo.

Premium Virtualization Softwares:

Vmware: This is one of the most promising and popular virtualization technology offering both small business and enterprise versions.

Oracle VM: This technology is completely based on Xen.

Microsoft Hyper-V: This is a hardware virtualization technology designed only for Windows.

Parallels Virtuozzo: It is a software virtualization technology designed for virtual private server.

First you need to understand the exact functioning and purpose of each virtualization technology and decide which server virtualization software meets your requirements and opt accordingly.

(Source: jpstream.net)

We upgraded our hosting infrastructure with a new operating system called CloudLinux that optimizes your site’s performance.

Today, on a shared hosting server, you are sharing resources with other sites, your digital neighbors so to speak. Yet sometimes, unpredictable issues having nothing to do with your site, can slow server performance or worse - cause a complete outage of the server. This can be the result of bad scripting or a spike in traffic on your neighbors site, that impact your website’s performance

That’s why we updated our servers to CloudLinux. With CloudLinux, we can ensure other sites that may have issues do not affect your site. In short, this upgrade prevents a badly behaving website on a shared server from being able to slow down or take down the entire server.

That’s the heart of the CloudLinux solution and it can deliver “rock solid reliability” with its innovative Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology. It isolates and limits resources of each site creating separation and prevents other sites from affecting you.

We are pleased to be able to offer you CloudLinux – a new solution that “crash proofs” the server so we can deliver:

• Increased server capability without increasing risk of a site of going down
• More efficient and stable server that lets you add new functions to your site without worry
• Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can slow down or take down a server
• and this even lets us be greener because we service more customers more efficiently with less hardware

Sign up for our new shared hosting offer!
Or to learn more about CloudLinux visit www.cloudlinux.com

(Source: jpstream.net)