Overselling is an industry standard in Shared Hosting, something that web hosts underline. When any shared hosting provider states on its home page “Unlimited Disc Space”, this makes it confident that the magic word “unlimited” allows the company to better compete on the hosting market. The truth is that consumers byte this. They think that “Unlimited” means that no restrictions are imposed to the service usage. Sad and untrue. As you know, dear readers of VPS Hosting Dir, “Unlimited” means mandatory restriction over the usage of any web hosting service. Anyway....

VMware’s won two prestigeous awards with its Infrastructure 3. One of them came from InfoWorld’s. The magazine’s technology of the Year Award for the best server virtualization platform went to the VM producer for the 5th consecutive year. WMware has also been honoured as “Best Overall Cloud Product” and “Best Cloud Platform” at the SYS-CON Event’s - Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards. The delegates of the expo voted for the best cloud computing solution in 5 categories all having “Best” upfront: Overall Cloud Product,...

According to a “Virtualization Industry Survey“, a research work conducted and published by Virtualization.info among 1,050 respondents Hyper-V, the relatively new virtualization technology by Microsoft. Question 6 of the survey is “What hardware virtualization platform do you implement?“. It is a closed question which offers respondents multiple choices to as answers. Among the options are 8 hypervisor choices - VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Xen Server, Virtual Iron, SuSe, RHEL, Oracle VM, KVM, as well an answer “None”. Hyper-V receives 600 responses with 475 for EXS...