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What are the use cases for VPS and VDS?
I'm trying to understand the differences between VPS (Virtual Private Server) and VDS (Virtual Dedicated Server) and would appreciate any insights on their specific use cases.
I’d love to hear your experiences or suggestions on which server to choose for specific situations.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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VPS if you want to idle.
VDS also if you want to idle.
/jk of course.
You'd want VDS if you want to sustain 100% CPU usage. Personally I never have to use VDS for my selfhosted apps (as they're mainly for family and friends) but you'd come into some cases where you'd want to use VDS.
Properly others can chip in their views.
I like your signature.
It's the truth
I personally use VPS for hosting small sites and telegram bots, sometimes it happens that I put someone else's scripts, which should work 24 by 7
I've never used VDS before , for me VPS do the work with no issue , as a VPN server , which run 24/7 no problems
A VPS is like renting a room at an apartment that has a community gym, pool, theater room, etc.
A VDS is like renting a house with a pool.
A VPS is generally going to have more amenities for $ spent, but you have to share it with others and can't just do whatever you want. You have to be mindful of how your use impacts others.
In most use cases, a VPS is probably the better choice. Even if you're serving a website and it's getting considerable traffic, there are still little moments of time between requests where the CPU is doing nothing. Those moments mean that those resources can be used by other people.
If, however, you're doing something that requires continual CPU use, like converting videos with FFMPEG, that use is going to use 100% of the CPU for the length of time it takes the video to convert. If that's the case, a VDS is what you'd want.
Some random spikes in usage = VPS.
Periods of continual gas-pedal-to-the-floor usage = VDS.
Each provider has what they consider "fair use" for a VPS, so there's no hard and fast rule about how much is too much (which definitely makes the assessment trickier), but I hope that helps.
Hi,
Maybe this helps: https://www.enginyring.com/en/blog/what-are-the-actual-technical-differences-between-an-lxc-and-a-kvm-vps
Oh, and the bigger thing is that it's virtually impossible to compare VPS's CPU power most of the time without considerable research. When you see "1 core" or "1 vCPU", it's sort of like a listing for "one bedroom" in my analogy. Some of those 1 bedrooms are huge and in mansions. Some of them are in shack tents. They're both technically "1 bedroom" but there's an astonishing difference. I have "1 core" VPSs that are 10 times faster than other "1 core" VPSs.
People use "yabs" to run a benchmark test to get a comparison score and post that here to give a better idea of how that "1 bedroom" really stacks up.
Shared (VPS) resources on a physical server, affordable, suitable for small to medium projects needing flexibility but not full performance. Choose for blogs, small e-commerce, or testing.
Dedicated (VDS) resources on a physical server, more expensive, ideal for resource-heavy applications requiring stability and high performance. Choose VDS for large databases, gaming servers, or high-traffic apps.
Thanks a lot, I think I’ve found the answer now.
The only difference with a VDS is that they have some amount of CPU power dedicated to you.