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....

The Tech Target website has published a comparison article that compares the pricing of Hyper-V and WMware and the benefits consumers have with each of those Windows virtualization technologies. “Microsoft touts Hyper-V as a lower-priced virtualization option than VMware’s ESXi, but for straight server consolidation, it’s unclear whether Hyper-V is that much cheaper than VMware because of Hyper-V’s system requirements and lower consolidation ratios”, writes Bridget Botelho. It is true that VMware has higher consolidation ratios than Hyper-V. Another benefit of WMware...

In order to beat the competition and to attract new customers amid gloomy expectations during the world spread financial crisis some VPS hosting providers launched promotional campaigns on their service plans. Stardothosting a Canadian, toronto base web host since 2003 said it added one free month for each Linux Virtual Private Servers to any customer who signs up an annual contract. VPSLink, a popular provider that claims to offer cheap VPS hosting, announced it discounted its virtual private servers with 25%. The hosts founder Cameron Jones, said that his company is looking to provide services...