ColdFusion VPS has been a hot topic for about the last four years and we’d like to take the time to help people understand what all the buzz is about. For that matter, why use a VPS at all? Why not simply go with a dedicated server and be done with it? Well, there are a number of reasons that you might choose the ColdFusion VPS over the ColdFusion Dedicated Server.
Chief on the list is simply the cost of hosting. ColdFusion VPS is usually a fraction of the cost of your other server options despite the fact that it offers such tremendous options. Typically, you can count on ColdFusion VPS service being about ¼ to 1/6 the monthly cost of a ColdFusion Dedicated Server. For a company on a tight budget or a startup company with limited initial capital, ColdFusion makes sense for its ease of use, and ColdFusion VPS makes sense for its thriftiness.
Why is it less expensive? Well, among other reasons, it allows you to share the cost of hardware as well as IT staff and support. Since your sites will share space, you can count on impacting wear and tear on only one physical machine and you split the cost with a number of other users. Companies that offer ColdFusion VPS can, therefore host more clients on their servers which also spreads the cost of tech help and manual upkeep over more pocketbooks, saving you a ton of cash in your hosting budget. If a dedicated server goes down, it only hosts one client so you can guess who the company has to go to to recoup losses for physical hardware. Whether it’s in the sign up fee or in the monthly maintenance fee, somebody has to pay when a server goes down. Would you rather it be only you that pays when your ColdFusion server goes down or would you rather it be you and twenty other patrons? Really, it’s an easy choice for those without a lot of liquid cash.
The next factor in the evaluating Coldfusion VPS as a hosting option is functionality. What does a ColdFusion VPS server offer to its user? Besides the plethora of benefits associated with utilizing ColdFusion as the base language- ease-of-use, dynamism, flexibility, etc- the VPS insures that you get many of the benefits that you would normally associate with higher cost hosting options. Security, for instance is much easier to maintain on a VPS than in a normal hosting situation because of the compartmentalized nature involved in VPS. In a normal hosting scenario, you data might share the same server as a thousand other clients with little or no insulation against hackers and viruses. ColdFusion-based VPS insure that you have a limited number of fellow clients on the same piece of hardware and that there are serious precautions taken to insure that no outside entity can breech over into your data space. The system makes it- pardon the pun- virtually impossible to infect on clients data from another client’s data space in a ColdFusion VPS hosting environment so that your site’s security, safety, and isolation are insured. In practice, this means that if another client is doing something that would normally affect you or how your site is viewed, it’s preemptively cut off. Coldfusion VPS providers don’t use shared IPs between clients so your site is safe.
Another great feature of ColdFusion VPS is the heightened level of service you receive. Generally, if you just have a regular hosting service you can count on limited support. Send them an email when your site is down and they’ll look into it. It may be back up soon or it may not. With VPS, however, you can get 24 hour professional support so long as you choose a reliable ColdFusion VPS hosting company. There are several prominent ones available.
The final feature of a ColdFusion VPS that we’ll address here is their absolute flexibility. If you need to allow for gradual growth ColdFusion VPS is the clear choice because they can set the parameters for the space you require whenever you’d like. If you project that you’ll need to double or triple your allotted space over a specific period of time, all you need to do is call your ColdFusion VPS host and let them know. The change can be done in seconds.
Consider these options before you choose a service or a provider. The time
you spend in planning out your hosting strategy will insure your eventual success
and certainly lead you to your solution: ColdFusion VPS.